Vocabulary
The first written language of India?
Skanskrit
These people were among the first works written in the Sanskrit language?
Vedas
The Muaryan dynasty set up which type of government?
Well-Run
The rebirth of the soul?
Reincarnation
Indian Military officer whom built a strong Army? And was first ruler of the Mauryan dynasty?
Chandra Gupta
Which Indian invention affected the study of mathematics and science?
The zero symbol
A person who travels to holy sites?
Pilgrim
Governer of most of northern and central India from about 273 B.C. to 232 B.C.
Ashoka
Five hundred years after the Mauryan dynasty failed, which dynasty reunited much of northern India?
Gupta
A Buddhist shrine, usually dome-shaped?
Stupa
Son of Chandra Gupta, whom expanded the Gupta Empire in northern India.
Samudra Gupta
Which is an epic poem about a ruler who rescues his captured wife and that grew to about 25,000 verses?
Ramayana
A force that the form that people will be reborn into their next lives?
Karma
Father of Samudra Gupta, whom ruled for ten years and was the first Gupta ruler.
Chandra Gupta
Who was a Mauryan ruler who built new roads and hospitals for people and animals?
Askoka