Key Terms
By Setting up a _________, Chandragupta was able to control his entire empire, even the smallest villages
Bureaucracy
True or False, music and dance thrived during the Mauryan period,
False, it thrived during the Gupta period.
One mathematic advancement during this time was the numeral for ________
zero
The science that deals with extracting metals from ore________
Metallurgy
Under _____ Rule, literature flourished
Gupta
Kautilya and Chandragupta formed a _______ that involved attacking Magadha
Strategy
Dancers created works based on _______ literature
Hindu
This is a counting system based on units of 10
Decimal System
The _______ Pillar of Delhi is a famous example of Metallurgy
Iron
What was the ancient language that was used in plays and poems of this time?
Sanskrit
Indian Metal-working skills led to advancements in the field of ________ using it to create useful objects.
Metallurgy
Performers with elaborate makeup and costumes told ________ through song and dance
stories
Aryabhata was the first astronomer to state that the Earth ________
rotates
_______ produced metal compounds of great quality
artisans
_____ is a short story with a moral, or lesson, at the end
Fable
While the people of the Maurya empire were subjects of the ruler and had no rights, those of the Gupta empire had rights an obligations and thus enjoyed a kind of ________
Citizenship
This game was invented under the Gupta Empire
Chess
This is a system of medicine developed by Indian doctors
What is Ayurveda
What does Extract Mean?
To remove
Much of this literature was _________
Religious
Probably the greatest advance of Indian mathematicians was the _________
Decimal System
The pieces of the first chess set represented ________
Indian Army
Double Jeopardy: Ancient medical books showed how to make hundreds of medicines using _______, ________, _______
Plants, Animal parts, and Minerals
The Iron Pillar of Delhi is famous. It has stood for _____ years without turning to rust
1500
The Guptas favored _______
Hinduism