Across
- 2. A belief that good or bad actions have an impact on a person's souls
- 5. people of high rank, they were given plots of land
- 7. How India divided their society into groups. Hinduism upheld this system, while Buddhism rejected it.
- 9. Wealthy landowners in Japan, they often led armies of Samurai
- 11. Which part of China did the Great Wall help protect
- 12. Confucianism is a system of philosophical and _____ teachings
- 15. To go without food or drink
- 16. a valuable, hard gemstone often used for jewerly in China
- 17. The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path are key teachings of this religion
- 18. an ancient Chinese philosopher who came up with ways to restore order in China
- 19. The process of rebirth, each time in a new body
- 21. This religion believes in many gods and is the largest and oldest religion in India today.
- 22. professionally trained warrior class in fedual Japan. They protected the land of the Daimyos.
- 23. a military general or warlord who ruled Japan in the Emperor's name
- 25. a person who appears to rule even though power rests somewhere else
- 26. The "enlightened one," his original name was Siddhartha Gautama and he spread his ideas across Northen India
Down
- 1. highly valued fabric in China. If the secret of how this material was made was found out, it led to death
- 3. a person who spreads their religious beliefs
- 4. a person who rules a country for someone who is unable to rule alone
- 6. he is known as the first emporer of China and helped to successfully unify China. He was a legalist and had strict laws and punishment
- 8. a state of perfect peace
- 10. Focusing the mind on spiritual ideas
- 13. the group at the bottom of the fedual system, they worked the farmland
- 14. a popular new form of Buddhism taht arrived from China
- 17. the Samurai code of rules
- 20. a group of nobles who live near and serve/advise a ruler
- 24. a modern math system created by Indian scholars. It is known as the Hindu-Arabic ________.