Across
- 2. Mauryan capital city
- 3. a person who travels to holy sites
- 6. Buddhist shrine shaped like a dome
- 8. Ashoka was the first ruler to promote this
- 10. an epic poem about King Rama and wife Sita with about 25,000 verses
- 11. first ruler of the Mauryan dynasty
- 13. Ashoka built these with rest houses and shade trees for travelers
- 14. In A.D. 320, this dynasty came to power in the Ganges River valley
- 15. longest ancient religious epic with 90,000 verses about heroism
- 18. India’s first empire
Down
- 1. Ashoka create these for people and animals
- 4. something without an end
- 5. the best-known section of the Mahabharata
- 7. the government of the Mauryan dynasty was this
- 9. what the Gupta empire did with salt, cloth, and iron
- 11. first ruler of the Gupta dynasty
- 12. proposed that the earth was round and revolved around the sun
- 16. Mauryan Empire reached the height of its glory under his rule
- 17. symbol that means nothing