Across
- 2. Sacred Aryan text
- 3. Good or bad deeds which follow from one reincarnation to another and influence current life circumstances, such as health or wealth
- 6. Seafaring people who dominated trade in the eastern Mediterranean from 2000 to 1400 B.C.
- 9. The highest state of enlightenment and the release from selfishness and pain, only possible through the Eightfold Path
- 10. Mountain range between the Black and the Caspian Seas
- 12. Half-human, half-bull = lived in a labyrinth
- 14. He becomes the Buddha through enlightenment.
- 16. Dry grassland that stretches north of the Caucasus
- 18. The highest ranking caste, made up of priests and teachers
- 19. A group of Indo-Europeans who occupied Anatolia.
- 20. The kingdom of the Israelites from 1020 to 922 B.C.
- 23. movements of people from one region to another
- 25. The sea resting just north of Crete
- 28. The first five and most sacred books of the Hebrew Bible
- 29. The belief in a single (one) god
- 31. A new religion that emerged following the Upanishads, influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism
Down
- 1. A mutual promise
- 4. An individual soul or spirit is born again and again, until Moksha is reached.
- 5. The ancient home of the Israelites, and the home of the Phoenicians
- 7. A peninsula that juts into the Black and Mediterranean Seas.
- 8. One of the great epics of India
- 11. After Israel divided, the southern part of the kingdom
- 13. Castes
- 15. Peace money paid by a weaker power to a stronger power
- 17. The most powerful traders along the Mediterranean after the fall of Crete
- 21. Chosen by God to serve as the "father" of the Jewish people
- 22. The Minoan capital city
- 24. The king who owned a Minotaur
- 26. wisdom
- 27. Indo-European people whose homeland is somewhere between the Caspian and Aral Seas
- 30. The man who led the Israelites out of slavery