India and Southeast Asia; 1500 BCE- 600 BCE

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  1. 5. An indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama who renounced his wealth and social position.
  2. 7. Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India.
  3. 9. Vast epic chronicling the events leading up to a cataclysmic battle between related kinship groups in India.
  4. 10. Early complex society in Southeast Asia between 1st and 6th century CE.
  5. 12. Wide variety of beliefs and ritual practices that have developed in the Indian subcontinent since antiquity.
  6. 14. Powerful Indian state based, on a capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley.
  7. 15. Acquires prestige and power by developing attractive cultural froms and staging elaborate public ceremonies.
  8. 16. 4 major social divisions in India; Brahmin priest class, Kshatriya warrior class, Vaishya merchant class, Shudra laborer class.
  9. 17. Kingdoms in southern India that are inhabited primarily by Dravidian speakers.
Down
  1. 1. Indian tradition where residue of deeds adhere to a spirit who determines what form it will assume in the next life cycle.
  2. 2. Early Indian sacred knowledge; religious texts.
  3. 3. "Way of Elders" downplays the importants of gods and emphasizes austerity and enlightment.
  4. 4. "Great Vehicle" focused on reverence for Buddha and bodhisattvas (enlightened people who have postponed nirvana)
  5. 6. Dialogue between great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.
  6. 8. Seasonal winds in the Indian Oceans caused by different temps between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia and the slowly changing ocean waters.
  7. 9. Hindu concept of a spirit's "liberation" from the endless cycle of rebirths.
  8. 11. Regional groups of people who have a common occupational sphere who marry, eat, and interact with eachother.
  9. 13. Founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 BCE; first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent.