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They illustrated the teachings of Hinduism and Buddhism.
What did many paintings and sculptures illustrate?
100
It meant "Great Work" and was a poem
What is the translation for Mahabharata
100
A symbol that represents nothing
What is zero?
100
Plants, animal parts, and minerals
What are three Indian ingredients for making medicine?
100
A period of prosperity and achievement
What is the Golden Age?
200
Some were hewn from rocks or even mountainsides.
Where were some temples built?
200
Fairy tales, folk tales, and fables
What were three popular forms of literature?
200
1...2...3...4...5...
What are Hindu-Arabic numerals?
200
The injection of a small quantity of virus to make a person more immune to a certain diease
What is inoculation?
200
They provided lessons in religon, mathematics, chemistry, etc.
What could colleges and universities provide?
300
Often, paintings, scupltures, and carvings can be found pertaining to a Hindu deity or Buddha.
What are found in Buddhist and Hindu temples?
300
It was "Song of the Lord"
What is the translation for the Bhaga-vita?
300
An important astronomer and mathematician
Who is Aryabhatta?
300
The science of extracting metal form ore
What is metallugy?
300
An ancient army
What the the pieces of the early chess set represent?
400
A type of Buddhist temple with a domed roof to house sacred items.
What are stuppas?
400
In 500, Indians writers produced a book of stories called ______
What is Panchatantra?
400
the length of a year and the size of the Earth
What did Aryabhatta find out combining astronomy and mathematics?
400
The pillar is very resistant to rust; stands near Delhi
What is special about the Iron Pillar? Where was it built?
400
The Panchatantra, the Iron Pillar, and Ayrabhatta’s Book
What works are still studied/ admired today?
500
a stringed instrument and a drum held sideways
What are the veena and the mridangam?
500
A person who wrote brilliant poems and plays and was hired by Chandra Gupta II
Who was Kalidasa?
500
Arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry; how to calculate the area of triangles and the volume of spheres
What were among the skills taught in Aryabhatta's book?
500
The science of life
What is Ayurveda?
500
They started conquering by force; they then worked to bring peace and prosperity.
How are Chandra Gupta II and Asoka alike?