Chapter Vocabulary
A wall painting.
What is mural?
The materials the Gupta Empire made sculptures with.
What is stone, wood, bronze, and Terracotta clay?
One example of a literary work the Gupta writers wrote.
What is poetry, fables, or folktales?
The Hindu and Gupta people were very good at this.
What is mathematics?
Gupta rulers encouraged trade using a huge system of this.
What are roads?
A territory that is part of a country or an empire.
What is province?
Perhaps the greatest ancient Indian paintings.
What are the Ajanta cave murals?
The Guptas built many of these throughout the empire.
What are colleges and universities?
Gupta mathematicians used this to write numbers.
What is the decimal system?
These along the Gupta roadway told travelers where they were.
What are road signs?
A roll of a material like paper or papyrus.
What is scroll?
Statue of Buddha's expression.
What is calm and peaceful?
The language manuscripts of the Gupta were written in.
What is Sanskrit.
Hindu mathematicians were the first to treat this as a number.
What is 0?
The Gupta roads connected these 2 countries.
What is India and China?
A home for monks.
What is monastery?
This deity's statue features: Riding on the back of a sea monster, water jug, dress, jewelry,and hair.
What is the river deity's(Ganga's) statue features?
The most famous university at the Gupta empire.
What is the University of Nalanda?
This mathematician proposed that planets were spheres.
Who is Aryabhata?
Gupta kings controlled huge mines of these materials.
What is gold, copper,and iron?
A Gupta mathematician.
Who is Aryabhata?
The Gupta empire is very famous for this.
What are beautiful paintings?
A poem composed over hundreds of years, reaching its final form during the Gupta era.
What is the poem Mahabharata?
In later centuries, Arabs learned the Indian system of numbers and spread it to Europe. As a result, Europeans called this way of writing numbers.
What are the Hindu-Arabic numerals?
Gupta metalworkers were famous for this.
What is ironwork?