Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire was also known as the _________.
Golden Age
Schools were primarily open to _______.
males
Guptas wrote plays that were the following genres: _________ and ______.
comedy and drama
Painting was an important art form for _______ families.
noble
Hindu mathematicians created a way of writing ______ using 1 to 9.
whole numbers
Guptas ruled much of India from 320 to _____ CE
The most famous university was the Buddhist school ____.
Nalanda
These people (2) wrote about Hindu law and religion
Scholars and Lawyers
What are the greatest ancient Indian paintings?
the Ajanta cave murals
Hindu mathematicians were also the first to treat ___ as a number.
0
Archaeologists discovered books known as _____ that contained sacred texts.
palm-leaf books
Name the two religions studied within the universities.
Hindu and Buddhism
What is the name of the "Ancient Lore"?
Puranas
The Ajanta cave murals covers _____ caves.
30
Aryabhata combined mathematics and astronomy to figure out _______.
a year was 365.258 days long
The Gupta Empire was known as a time of peace and _________.
prosperity
Students made cures from which 4 natural resources?
bark, root, leaves, and minerals
This "Great Work" is a poem composed of over hundreds of years.
The Mahabharata
The Ajanta murals depict _______.
Buddha's life.
Aryabhata also calculated the size of the ___.
Earth
Buddhism
Universities trained students in the study of stars and planets
What is astronomy?
Which Arabian tale is inspired by Gupta Folktale?
Aladdin
The paintings are done in paints made from ____ and _______.
minerals and clay
Europeans called the Indian system of numbers __________.
"Arabic numerals"