The Golden Age of India
During the reign of the Gupta Empire India experienced great advancements in these.
What is science, medicine and mathematics?
In 325 BCE this soldier became the King of Magadha (region in Northern India).
Who is Chandragupta Maurya?
What happened after Asoka died in 232 BCE.
What is the empire fell apart?
In 269 BCE, this grandson of Chandragupta, became king of the Mauryan Empire after his father died.
Who is Ashoka?
in 320 CE this leader took control for the Magadha region and declared himself, The Great King of Kings and established the Gupta Empire.
Who is Chandra Gupta?
This Indian scientists proved this.
What is that the Earth was round and it revolved around the sun?
What Chadgradupta used from people to maintain large armies that could crush troublemakers and outside threats.
What are taxes?
Why India was in a constant state of turmoil and unrest after Asoka's death.
What is no ruler was ever able to unite the empire for the next 500 years.
Asoka immediately waged war to expand his empire and ordered an attack on a neighboring kingdom which lead to this.
What is over 100,000 soldiers and civilians being killed?
Brought to India after Chandra started a dynasty of gupta kings.
What is 200 years of prosperity and advancement?
Indian mathematician developed this concept.
What is the concept of zero?
Chandragupta Maurya quickly conquered these to quickly create India's first Empire known as Mauryan Empire.
What were the nearby kingdoms?
Why Asoka sent Buddhist missionaries to other countries.
What is to help spread Buddhism?
Ashoka was so horrified by the amount of deaths he converted lead him to.
What is Buddhism?
This is what most Indian people living in small villages in the Gupta Empire were.
What were farmers growing crops such as rice, wheat and barley?
We still use these concepts today in mathematics.
What is the use of decimals and the numerals that we still use today?
To control the empire, Chandragupta established this and divided the empire into four provinces that were each headed by a royal prince.
What is a strong central government?
What Asoka built.
What are sick and injured hospitals and veterinary clinics for animals?
Ruling the empire by the Buddha's is the teaching of peace to all things.
What is Eight Fold Path?
Connected China to the Middle East and eventually Europe to help spread Indian products.
What is the Silk Road?
Indian doctors performed these to prevent people from developing diseases.
What is inoculations?
In 297 BCE Chandragupta gave up his throne and became this.
What is a monk and committed his life to nonviolence?
Helped improve communication and trade across the empire.
What are roads built by Asoka?
Guptas allowed the people they defeated to continue to rule themselves as long as they remained obedient to the Guptas and paid them a yearly tribute (tax).
What is instead of creating a strong central government under the sole role of one king?