Key Terms
Gupta Emperors
Literature and the Arts
Mathematics and Astronomy
Medicine and Metallurgy
100
A status with political rights and obligations.
What is citizenship?
100
Gained power in the Ganges Basin and united much of India through alliances and wars of conquest.
Who is Chandra Gupta I?
100
These were a popular form of literature.
What is a fable?
100
Mathematicians developed the concept of zero as this.
What is a numeral?
100
the system of Ayurveda was about this.
What is medicine?
200
A symbol used to represent a number.
What is a numeral?
200
Chandra Gupta called himself this name.
What is "Exterminator of kings"?
200
Dancers created works based on this.
What is Hindu literature?
200
The invention of this led to advances in algebra.
What is the decimal system?
200
Ayurvedic textbooks described this.
What are diseases?
300
A counting system based on units of ten.
What is the decimal system?
300
During his reign the Gupta empire was at it greatest size and peaceful.
Who is Chandra Gupta II?
300
He was a great poet.
Who is Kalidasa?
300
Aryabhata wrote a book about this.
What is arithmetic, algebra, and trigonometry?
300
This game was invented in India.
What is chess?
400
The science that deals with extracting metals from ore and using it to create useful objects.
What is metallurgy?
400
Some citizens were able to gain political rights and obligations.
What is citizenship?
400
Architects built these.
What are monasteries, temples, rock carvings?
400
Aruabhata discovered two things the Earth and moon.
What is the Earth rotating and why the moon shines?
500
Under Chandra Gupta II the empire had great size, peace, and this.
What is prosperity?
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