Across
- 3. - an explorer from Portugal encountered this social system and called the groups.
- 6. - the teachers' comments were later written down.
- 12. - movements of a people from one region to another.
- 14. - mutual promise between God and the founder of the Jewish people.
- 15. - the Minoan capital city.
- 16. - a dry grasslands that stretched north of the Caucasus.
- 19. - it is part of the Aryan groups based in occupation and priests are here.
- 21. - the four major group is also known as.
- 25. - also called as Asia Minor.
- 26. - also known as wisdom.
- 28. - a belief in a single god.
- 29. - the founder of Jainism.
- 30. - a great mother goddess.
Down
- 1. - another Indo-European people whose homeland was probably somewhere between the Caspian and Aral seas.
- 2. - the most powerful traders along the Mediterranean.
- 4. - the creator.
- 5. - powerful seafaring people who dominated trade in the eastern Mediterranean from about 200 to 1400.
- 7. - the destroyer.
- 8. - A wall of the highest mountains in the world --- the Hindu, Kush, Karakorum, and Himalayan ranges--- seperates this region from the rest of the Asian Continent.
- 9. - group of nomadic people's who may have come from the steppe.
- 10. - group of speakers.
- 11. - one of the greatest epics of India.
- 13. - a seasonal winds that dominate India's climate.
- 17. - also known as the protector.
- 18. - the Buddha's word for release from selfishness and pain.
- 20. - also known as rebirth whereas an individual soul or spirit is born again and again until moksha is achieved.
- 22. - good or bad deeds that influences specific life circumstances.
- 23. - is when the person achieves the perfect understanding.
- 24. - they have a sacred literature that left a picture of Aryan Life.
- 27. - is a collection of religious beliefs that developed slowly over a long period of time.