Module 7 Lesson 1: India's First Empires

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Across
  1. 1. ruthless adviser to Chandragupta
  2. 5. people who lived in SE India and were constantly at war with each other
  3. 9. neighboring state that was destroyed and over 100,000 soldiers were massacred
  4. 10. invaded and overran the Gupta thereby ending it
  5. 12. Asoka had these built all over his empire so that he could visit the far corners of India
  6. 13. number of provinces the Mauryan Empire was divided
  7. 14. a society where the eldest woman in the head of the family
  8. 16. son of Chandra Gupta and lover of the arts, but also warlike general who expanded the empire
  9. 18. Greeks, Persians, and Central Asians brought their own cultures to NW India and created this
  10. 22. added the coastal territory in NW India
  11. 25. a new system of social cohesion that Asoka advanced
  12. 26. Asoka had these built every nine miles along the road network
  13. 27. society run by the eldest male in the family
  14. 28. founded the Gupta empire
  15. 31. gorgeous capital city with gold-covered pillars, many fountains, and imposing thrones
Down
  1. 2. dynasty of central India that came to dominate the region after Asoka for hundreds of years
  2. 3. Asoka's stone pillars preached this
  3. 4. Gupta had this because droughts were common
  4. 6. by adding the coast of NW India to the Gupta Empire this allowed for profitable ________ with the Med. and Arabia
  5. 7. began in 321 BC with the murder of the unpopular Nanda king
  6. 8. religion/way of life that Asoka found and devoted his life to
  7. 11. ruler who brought the Mauryan Empire to its greatest height
  8. 15. had shops on the streets and rooms above for where they lived
  9. 16. one of Alexander the Great's generals who controlled the Indus Valley
  10. 17. laws engraved on the many stone pillars erected through northern India
  11. 19. describes the organization system in which Chandragupta used
  12. 20. oversaw a great flowering of Indian civilization and especially Hindu culture
  13. 21. after feeling great sorrow over Kalinga Asoka did this
  14. 23. the world's very first code of laws made to protect these creatures
  15. 24. acceptance of all people of all faiths
  16. 29. to support or fund the massive Mauryan army
  17. 30. very tough-minded public policy handbook/how to run an empire