Ancient Eastern Civilization

3. A signal spiritual power that existed beyond the many gods of the Vedas and that resided all things.
5. A religion based on the teachings of Buddha.
6. Samurai code that emphasizes honor, bravery, and absolute loyalty to one’s lord.
7. A philosophy that sought to live in harmony with nature.
8. The Indian emperor who killed a lot of people and then converted to Buddhism after realizing what he’d done.
10. Period of great cultural achievement.
13. Buddha before he was enlightened.
21. Animal bones or turtle shells on which Shang priest wrote questions addressed to the gods or to the spirit of an ancestor.
22. A large landmass that juts out from a continent.
25. A collection of hymns, chants, ritual instructions, and other religious teachings.
26. Nomads that intermarried with local people in India.
27. The chief of an Aryans tribe.
29. A network of trade routes that linked China to the West.

1. Young adventurer that forged the first Indian empire.
2. The greatest Indian epic with nearly 100,000 verses.
4. Seasonal winds that regularly blow from a certain direction for part of the year.
9. A system of government in which local lords governed their own lands but owed military service and other forms of support to the ruler.
11. payment to the bridegroom
12. Indus city that was laid out in an organized pattern, with long, wide main streets and large rectangular blocks.
14. Rebirth of the soul in another bodily form.
15. A religion that grew out of the overlapping of diverse groups that settled in India.
16. Dynasty that restored China to its earlier glory starting in 618.
17. People sent on a religious mission.
18. Dynasty that reunited much of India after the Maurya dynasty.
19. Chinese admiral and diplomat that commanded the first of seven expeditions for China.
20. The Korean phonetic alphabet that uses symbols to represent the sounds of spoken Korean.
22. Emperor that started the building of the Great Wall.
23. A philosophy developed by Confucius.
24. Union with the universe and release from the cycle of rebirth.
28. Social groups into which people are born and which can rarely be changed.