Mauryan Empire
What family unified India?
Mauryan
How did Ashoka tell people about his edicts?
Carved them into pillars and walls
When was the Gupta Empire? BCE or CE?
CE
Where did people go to learn about medicine?
Universities
What is one of the types of literary works the Guptas wrote?
Poetry, fables, folktales, plays (comedies and dramas)
What did the Mauryans use to unite India?
Their giant army
What religion did Ashoka become that made him change how he ruled his empire?
Buddhist
How many years did the Gupta Empire last?
230
Hindu mathematicians were the first to treat _____ as a real number.
Zero (0)
The greatest ancient Indian paintings are known as the Ajanta ___ murals.
Cave
Ashoka is what relation to Changdragupta?
Grandson
Which of the four goals deals with Ashoka's edicts that were focused on meeting basic human needs?
General Welfare
A great time of prosperity and acheivement, especially in art and science, is called what?
Golden Age
Name one material sculptors used to make statues.
Stone, wood, bronze, terra-cotta
Metalworkers made ___ with pictures honoring Gupta rulers.
Coins
What did Ashoka do with the territories the Mauryas had conquered?
He kept them
Which of the four goals deals with Ashoka's edicts that were focused on people being treated fairly?
Justice
How did the Gupta rulers form alliances with other rulers?
Arranged marriages
What achievement encouraged long-distance trade?
Roads
What story do we know today that came from a Gupta folktale?
Aladdin
Ashoka expanded the Mauryan Empire until he...
Gave up violence
Which of the four goals deals with Ashoka's edicts that were focused on enemies and people who were not citizens of his empire?
Security
What happened on the Indian subcontinent in the time period between the Mauryan and Gupta empires?
It was filled with small kingdoms
A man named Aryabhata discovered what about the year?
It was 365 days long
What group of people made it possible to construct complex buildings?
Mathematicians