Ancient India

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Across
  1. 1. “The enlightened one” Siddhartha Gautama
  2. 5. the focusing of mind on spiritual ideas
  3. 8. mixtures of 2 or more metals to make the new metal stronger
  4. 10. the avoidance of violent action
  5. 13. 2: emperor who took throne in India during 375 B.C.
  6. 17. Candragupta’s grandson and he became king, made a strong empire, and he promoted Buddhism.
  7. 20. the process of rebirth
  8. 22. the study of stars and planets
Down
  1. 1. a religion based on the teachings of the Buddha
  2. 2. the most important language of Ancient India
  3. 3. System divided Indian society into groups based on a person’s birth, wealth, or occupation
  4. 4. the largest religion in India today
  5. 5. the science of working with metals
  6. 6. going without food
  7. 7. the effects that good or bad actions have on a person’s soul
  8. 9. injecting a person with a small dose of virus to help him or her build up defenses to a disease. defenses=immune system
  9. 11. a state of perfect peace
  10. 12. was based on the teachings of a man named Mahavira
  11. 14. a series of steps by which a task is accomplished
  12. 15. Numerals: The numbers that we use today.
  13. 16. people who work to spread their religious beliefs
  14. 18. is a large landmass that is smaller than a continent
  15. 19. seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry season
  16. 21. to set up or create