Across
- 2. A fixed social class into which a person is born. People inherited their caste from their parents and stayed in it their whole lives.
- 3. Discrimination against Jewish people.
- 6. The main religion in India
- 7. Territories containing several countries and ruled by a single government.
- 10. A ruler of a Muslim country.
- 12. A Code of laws established by Hammurabi to govern life in the Babylonian Empire.
- 13. A political and economic system in which the state owns all property and the government makes all economic decisions
- 14. Native peoples of the Pacific Islands like Samoa and Tonga, among others
- 16. A successor of Muhammad.
- 18. The peninsula that includes the countries of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
Down
- 1. These people developed the first phonetic writing system, in which each character corresponded with a spoken word.
- 2. A system of writing using wedge-shaped marks pressed into clay tablets to stand for ideas or sounds.
- 4. The region that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
- 5. A state of blissful peace without desire or suffering
- 8. The process by which one group takes on the cultural traits of another
- 9. Islam's holy book, or, their version of the Bible or Torah.
- 11. The first religion based on the belief in one God, who set down laws about right and wrong.
- 15. A series of trade routes that crossed Asia and connected China to the Mediterranean Sea
- 16. A slow, painful Roman method of execution, nailing the victim or tying them to a large wooden cross, most notably happened to Jesus Christ.
- 17. The rebirth of a soul in a new body