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The Gupta Family
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Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
True or false: the Gupta family lived after the Mauryan rulers.
What is true?
100
Name the city which most of the universities were located.
What is Nalanda?
100
Roads were built from this type of worker.
What are engineers?
100
Spell the name of the family that followed the Mauryans
What is G-U-P-T-A-?
100
Name 2 materials sculptures were often created out of.
What is 1) stone 2) wood 3) bronze 4) terra-cotta clay?
200
This is the number of years the Gupta family was in rule.
What is 230 years?
200
Name the language used during India's Golden Age.
What is Sanskrit?
200
True or false: roads were below ground.
What is false; they were above ground?
200
This is the name of the home for monks.
What is monastery?
200
The Puranas, Mahabharata; Bhagavad Gita are all examples of this.
What is literature?
300
This is the year the Guptas came to power.
What is 320 C.E?
300
Name a popular subject for paintings in wealthy families.
What are deities or religious topics?
300
Ditches or canals were built alongside road for this purpose.
What is to help prevent flooding so that rainwater ran off the road and into the ditch?
300
This is a type of paining usually on a wall or cave.
What is a mural?
300
Spell Ms. Thompson's first name.
What is G-A-Y-L-E?
400
Name 1 strategy that helped the Guptas remain in power.
What is 1) they had a central government 2) by force 3) arranged marriages for their daughters 4) gave local provinces their own control?
400
Mathematics were used extensively; name the reason that the decimal system was invented.
What is to collect taxes on crops?
400
India's roads connected to this country in the East.
What is China?
400
Define Golden Age.
What is a period of greatness or many achievements?
400
Gupta kings controlled huge mines of gold; copper, and iron. Explain what they produced from these metals.
What are 1) coins and 2) iron pillars?
500
Name the first ruler that began with the Gupta Empire.
Who is Chandragupta?
500
The building of well built roads encouraged this.
What is traders to move from from city to city?
500
Describe how the road were built.
What is roads were 1) cleared of trees and rocks 2) holes filled in and 3) smoothed or leveled?
500
Fill in the blank. Examples of these in India include metalwork, painting, and sculptures_______________.
What are achievements?
500
Name the famous mathematician who figures out the days in a year; and the size of the earth among other things.
Who is Aryabhata?