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Across 5. A historian and the author of Lessons for Women (2 Words) 6. a collection of 1,028 Sanskrit Hymns, composed around 1500-1000 B.C.E. but written down about 1000 C.E. (2 Words) 7. Third king of the Mauryan Dynasty, (ca. 320-185 B.C.E.) the first Indian ruler to support Buddhism 8. Small sailboats used in the Indian Ocean made from teak planks 10. A Chinese belief system dating back to at least 300 B.C.E. that emphasized the “Way” 14. author of Records of the Grand Historian, A history of China from ancient legendary times to the first century B.C.E. Lived during the Han Dynasty (2 Words) 15. The belief in China that dead ancestors could intercede in human affairs on behalf of the living (2 Words) 17. The term for the main tenets of Confucius 18. An Indian religion founded around the same time as Buddhism that emphasizes right faith, right knowledge, and right conduct, a key tenet is not to harm any living beings 22. From the Sanskrit word for color; the four major social groups of Indian society, ranked in order of Purity 23. The Chinese belief that Heaven, the generalized forces of the cosmos (not the abode of the dead) chose the rightful ruler (3 Words) 29. State whose ruler sponsored religious observances and construction of religious edifices in the hope that his subjects would willingly acknowledge him as ruler. Usually contrasted with rulers who depended on sheer force to govern (2 Words) 30. Site of the earliest complex society on the Indian subcontinent (3 Words) 31. literally “the turner of the wheel” a Buddhist term for the ideal ruler who patronized Buddhism but never became a monk 32. A term, sometimes translated as subcaste, for groups of five thousand to fifteen thousand people in northern India 33. The successor dynasty to the Shang that gained the Mandate of Heaven and the right to rule according to Chinese historians (2 Words) 34. The immediate successor to the Qin dynasty (2 Words)

Down 1. A language such as Latin, Greek, and English, belonging to the Indo-European language family and spoken by Indo-Aryan migrants to north India around 1500-1000 B.C.E. 2. Founder of the Qin dynasty (221-207 B.C.E.) and the first ruler to unify China; (6 Words) 3. Nomadic people north of China whose military strength derived from brilliant horsemanship 4. a Sanskrit term meaning correct conduct according to law or custom; 9. Established in 124 B.C.E. by the Han Emperor, Emperor Wu (r. 140-87 B.C.E.) to encourage the study of the Confucian texts (2 Words) 11. A dynasty that unified much of the Indian subcontinent. (2 Words) 12. a Sanskrit word that literally means extinction, as when the flame in a candle goes out. 13. A term referring to both the seasonal winds in South Asia blowing northeast in spring an early summer and southwest in fall and winter and to the heavy seasonal rains that they bring. 14. China’s first historic Dynasty. (2 Words) 16. A term for people who migrate seasonally from place to place to find grass for their animals. 19. The earliest surviving written records in China, scratched onto cattle shoulder blades and turtle shell bottoms, or plastrons, to record the diviners interpretations of the future (2 Words) 20. The Founder f the Buddhist religion, Siddhartha Gautama 21. A school of thought, origination in the fourth century B.C.E. and associated with the Qin Dynasty 24. Religious belief system of Indo-European Migrants to north India (2 Words) 25. A Buddhist devotee who observes the five precepts not to kill, steal, commit adultery, lie or drink alcohol, but continues to live at home and does not join a Buddhist order. (2 Words) 26. A teacher who made his living by tutoring students; Known only through the Analects 27. the summon one’s deeds in this an all earlier existences that determines one rebirth in the next life 28. The first Dynasty to rule over a unified China (2 Words)