Early Empires in India & China

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Restored to new life and vigor (6)
  2. 5. A ___ between factions in the same country (8)
  3. 9. The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes (13)
  4. 11. A member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas (plural) (8)
  5. 13. To destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation (11)
  6. 14. The Chinese ___ that established the first centralized imperial government and built much (10)

Down

  1. 1. Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India (plural) (12)
  2. 2. Ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic (9)
  3. 4. Imperial ___ that ruled China and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy (10)
  4. 6. Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis (9)
  5. 7. After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body (7)
  6. 8. The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation (13)
  7. 10. Force that pulls objects toward the Earth (7)
  8. 12. The religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal (8)
  9. 13. A Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred (6)
  10. 15. Philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life (6)