Midterm Review Part III

4. An early city built by the original inhabitants of the Indus River Valley.
6. The only way into India by land through the northern mountains.
10. Mauryan emperor of India who converted to Buddhism and sent missionaries to spread the religion.
11. Religion based on the worship of gods, nature spirits and ancestors.
13. The 2nd empire of India - India's "Golden Age" when it began trade on the Silk Road.
15. The universal god of Hinduism - the oneness of everything.
19. A scientist who uses artifacts and fossils to create a larger context for understanding the culture of a civilization.
20. Rigid social class in the Hindu religion.
21. Intentionally infecting a person with a dead or weakened version of a virus in order to boost immunity. First practiced in ancient India.
23. A semi-nomadic, pastoral people originally from the Caucuses Mountain region who traveled into India and mixed with its native peoples.

1. ________________ Gautama, or "Buddha".
2. Aryan works of history and religious literature.
3. Written language of the ancient Aryans.
5. The reward or punishment a person receives for fulfilling their dharma or not.
7. Upper caste priests in the Hindu religion.
8. Also known as Nirvana - the blissful feeling of becoming one with everything.
9. The mountainous region northwest of the Indus river.
12. The illusion of being separate from all things according to Hinduism.
14. The river along which the 1st people in India settled.
16. A purple dye derived from a snail that was made in ancient Phoenicia.
17. The obligations of each caste in Hinduism.
18. Fertile yellow soil that sometimes caused the Huang river to flood.
22. Buddhist University built during the Gupta Dynasty of India. Birth place of Algebra.