These mountains are located along India's northern boarder.
What are the Himalaya Mountains
100
A home for monks.
What is a monastery
100
Manuscripts were written in this
What is sanskrit
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
A huge mass of ice that slowly slides over a land area.
What is a glacier
200
This was the most famous university.
What is the Buddhist school at Nalanda
200
Scholars and lawyers wrote about this.
What is Hindu law and religion?
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
A strong wind that brings heavy rain to southern Asia in the summer.
What is a monsoon
300
Hindu universities provided this class with religious training.
What is the upper class?
300
These 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
This color soil is rich in iron and good for growing crops.
What is black soil
400
Only daughters of these people were allowed to attend universities.
What are teachers daughters?
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
Farming settlements started in this region as early as 6500 B.C.E.
What is the Indus-Sarasvati region
500
Cures were made from these substances.
What are bark, roots and leaves?
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...