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