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4. a set of routes extending from the Mediterranean Sea to China along which silk was a major article of trade and exchange
5. people who collect trash and dispose of the dead
8. any one of the four classes understood by the ancient Vedic Aryans to compose the ideal social order
10. the priests
11. in Hinduism, the complex concept of duty, law, and right conduct that establishes and sustains order and the world.
13. the warriors

1. the artisans, farmers, and herdsman
2. the rigid categories based on birth and occupation that identify and determine a person's station in society
3. the rebirth of an individual’s soul in a different form after death
6. the major Indian religious system, which had its origins in the religious beliefs of the Aryans who settled in India after 1500 B.C
7. the people whose duty is to serve the other classes
9. in Buddhism, ultimate reality, the end of the self and a reunion with the Great World Soul
12. in Hinduism, the force generated by a person’s actions that determines how the person will be reborn in the next lif