Geography of Asia
This mountain range in northern India contains the highest peak in the world.
What is the Himalaya
Name of Empire that preceded the Gupta
What is the Mauryan Empire
These were the two main religions in India during the Gupta Empire.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism
The empire covering much of northern India that was ruled by Guptas from about 320 CE to about 550 CE
What is the The Gupta Empire
The period of the Gupta Empire was a time of learning. The Guptas build these throughout the empire to spread knowledge, religion, medicine, and art.
What are Universities.
This sacred River in India is fed by the glaciers of the Himalayan range and flows into the Bay of Bengal
What is the Ganges River
What were the years of prosperity for the Gupta rulers? For example, what was the "golden age" of the Gupta Empire?
Beginning in the mid 200s, the Gupta controlled much of India from 320-550 C.E.
Buddhist beliefs became widespread during the empire before the Gupta rulers took over. What was the name of that empire?
What is the Mauryan Empire
A bond between families, states, or other groups to further their common interests.
What is an Alliance.
Gupta, and therefore Indian, Universities were generally run by the two distinct and separate religious groups
Who are the Hindus and the Buddhists
Name the three bodies of water that surround the south Indian peninsula. *Hint: one's a bay, one a sea, and the third an ocean.
What are the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Bay of Bengal.
Name three advances in the arts and sciences achieved during the "golden age" of the Gupta Empire.
Answers may include any 3 of the following: Growth of Universities, advances in literature, sculpture, metalwork, mathematics, and road building.
Hinduism was a dominant religious belief during the Gupta Empire, as it is even today in India. Sacred Indian Hindu texts taught people spiritual and practical lessons; What were those sacred Hindu texts called?
What are the Puranas or Vedas.
A territory that is part of a country or an empire.
What is a province.
The most famous university during the Gupta golden age.
What was the school at Nalanda.
This large river in west India flows from the himalaya to the Arabian Sea.
What is the Indus RIver.
He was a famous Gupta Mathematician who combined math and astronomy to figure out that a year was exactly 365.258 days long.
Aryabhata
A famous city in the Gupta Empire known for its metalwork
What is Meharauli
A period of great happiness, prosperity, and achievement.
What is a golden age.
This part of the epic poem "Mahabharata", or "Great Work" means: "Song of the Lord." It is still one of the most beloved works of Hinduism. In the poem, "Prince Arjuna is taught basic truths of Hinduism by Krishna, an earthly for of the deity, (god), Vishnu.
What is the Bhagavad Gita.
This Island nation sits off the southeastern coast of India
What is Sri Lanka
Name the complex and beautiful ancient Indian temple shown here:
The Great Mahabodhi Temple or "Great Awakening Temple."
The Vedas were ancient Hindu legends, or tales of famous sages and kings. The Guptas gathered those stories together into a collections called "The Great Work." It's themes relate to Hindu values and the struggle between good and evil.
What is the Indian word for "Great work", for example, what did they call this collection of stories?
What is the Mahabharata.
The country of India is very, very large, and actually forms a large geographic feature the juts out into a body or bodies of water so that it's surrounded on three sides by that water.
What do you call this geographic feature, a "body of land that juts out into water"; often surrounded on three sides by that water.
What is a Peninsula.
This famous Arabian tale was inspired by a Gupta folk tale.
What is Aladdin and his magic lamp.