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