Miscellaneous Achievements
Rise of the Gupta Empire
Universities & Literature
Painting, Scupture & Metalwork
Mathematics & Roads
100
Acheologists learned about the accomplishments of the Gupta empire through discovering these...
What are palm-leaf books?
100
This is one way that the Gupta Empire was similar to the Mauryan Empire...
What is a central government?
100
The most famous Buddhist university was located here...
What is Nalanda?
100
Some of the greatest Indian paintings were located in caves here...
What is Ajanta?
100
The mathematician Aryabhata was one of the earliest scientists to suggest this...
What is the earth spinning on its axis?
200
Historians have called the Gupta empire period from 320 to 550 an example of this...
What is a golden age?
200
The Guptas ruled India for about this many years...
What is 230?
200
Hindu doctors educated in the Gupta empire university system were especially skilled in this...
What is surgery?
200
Painting was an important part of life for this group...
What are noble families?
200
Gupta empire roads connected India to these places...
What are China & lands east of the Mediterranean Sea?
300
An important sculpture center in ancient India was located here...
What is Sarnath?
300
Chandragupta I and his family united northern Indian kingdoms in this way...
What is through war?
300
These religious writings described many Hindu legends...
What are the Puranas?
300
One of the best examples of Gupta sculptures depicted this goddess...
Who is Ganga?
300
The Gupta empire's roads were designed for this...
What are safety & comfort?
400
An important place for mathematical achievements during the Gupta empire was here...
What is Bakshali?
400
In contrast to the Mauryas, the Guptas gave this to local areas...
What is independence?
400
The famous Indian poem, the Mahabharata, means this in Sanskrit...
What is "Great Work?"
400
This example of metalwork was found in Meharauli...
What is the iron pillar?
400
Two of Aryabhata's discoveries were...
What are: figuring out the length of the year calculating the approximate size of the Earth suggesting that the Earth spins of its axis proposing that the planets were spheres
500
An important site for literature during the Gupta empire was found here...
What is Ujjain?
500
The Gupta empire was divided up into these units...
What are provinces?
500
This Arabian folktale was inspired by a Gupta folktale...
What is Aladdin?
500
Gupta metalworkers often engraved this on their gold & copper coins...
What are Gupta rulers?
500
Gupta mathematicians developed this number system that is still in use today...
What is the decimal system?