Across
- 4. most of India's citizens are today are these
- 5. one of the countries India traded with under the Guptas
- 8. many Hindus wanted more of this in their religion
- 16. you
- 17. ambitious leader of Mauryan Empire that wanted Magadha
- 19. the Creator of everything
- 21. Asoka wrote his laws in these languages so that everyone could read them
- 22. the priests
- 24. common people and skilled workers
- 26. small northern Indian state that became the focus of the Mauryan Empire
- 27. also called Outcastes, slaves
- 29. one of the countries India traded with under the Guptas
- 31. unskilled workers and servants
- 33. the warriors and rulers
- 34. the Destroyer of life
- 36. what the Buddha said one must do to become enlightened
- 37. Gupta mathematicians introduced this concept, as well as explaining infinity btw how u doin
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- 1. a decorative stone temple Buddhists built over the holy ded pepl
- 2. the people who took over India
- 3. the religious and moral law governing individual conduct
- 5. the Aryans revered these and thought these animals were sacred
- 6. founded the Gupta empire
- 7. the Preserver of life
- 9. group of believers who viewed the Buddha (not Jesus) as a human teacher
- 10. the spoken language of the Aryans that later became written too
- 11. the Buddha's explanation for the cause of suffering
- 12. wise ruler who that banned war in Mauryan Empire and became a buddhist after seeing the horrors of war
- 13. probably the most famous and well known Indian epic
- 14. a person who followed Buddha's Eightfold Path might reach this state of enlightenment in his lifetime (also great band)
- 15. only a few of India's citizens today are these
- 16. group of believers in Buddhism who regarded the Buddha as a god
- 17. lowered taxed in Gupta empire, let citizen focus more on the arts
- 18. the moral that says that you should not harm any living thing
- 20. one of the countries India traded with under the Guptas
- 23. also called castes, system of segregating different people by class or maybe even color
- 25. a system of actions and reactions throughout a soul's reincarnated lives forming a cycle of rebirth though different castes
- 28. Gupta scientists recognized this as a physical force
- 30. means enlightened one, followers of Siddhartha Gautama called him this
- 32. name of large main area of the world where Buddha's disciples spread Buddha's teachings
- 35. group of Indians who actually lost some rights since the Aryan times
