Ancient India Terms & Facts

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Across
  1. 5. Lowest level. Did the jobs no one else wanted to do
  2. 9. Seasonal winds in ancient India's climate
  3. 10. Farmers and merchants. Second lowest social class
  4. 13. A mountain range that extends through Northern India
  5. 14. Top position in the caste system
  6. 15. The belief that when a person dies, their soul goes onto a new life
  7. 17. Mostly peasants. Most populated class. Lower than vaisyas
  8. 20. kush A mountain range along the NW border of India
  9. 21. The idea that a person's actions will determine their next life is called ______
  10. 22. A written language developed around 1000 BC
  11. 23. The four major social classes in Ancient India were called ______
  12. 24. system Social categories that determined a person's position
Down
  1. 1. Less than 1% of this religion is still practiced in modern-day India
  2. 2. When you practice ______ you achieve wisdom, ultimate reality, and reunite with the Great Soul
  3. 3. A major religious system that consists of multiple gods
  4. 4. A large landmass that is like a small cotinent
  5. 6. A leader who protested the British through ahisma
  6. 7. Aryan leaders or princes
  7. 8. Warrior and military elite. Second highest social class
  8. 11. The river that the earliest Indian civilization depended on
  9. 12. ______ is one of the most beloved and worshipped gods
  10. 16. Means "nonviolence"
  11. 18. Divine law that requires people to do their duty is called ______
  12. 19. Indo-european people that migrated to India