The Gupta Empire (General)
Rise of the Gupta Empire
Universities and Literature
Painting and Sculpture
Metalwork, Mathematics, and Roads
100

Ancient India was united for the second time under this empire.

What is the Gupta Empire?

100

This event immediately followed the fall of the Mauryan Empire.

What is India broke apart into separate kingdoms?

100

This is a theory by which one lives. 

What is philosophy?

100

The Ajanta caves are famous for this form of art

What are paintings?

100

The images of Gupta kings on coins show that the empire had people who were skilled in this craft. 

What is metal work?

200

This was a characteristic of Gupta rule:

  • extreme poverty

  • lasting prosperity

  • constant warfare

  • unstable government

What is Lasting Prosperity?

200

This is a a territory that is part of a country or empire.

What is a province?

200

The Bhagavad Gita is this type of literature.

What is poetry?

200

The Ajanta caves are part of this religious complex. 

What is a Buddhist Temple? 

200

This achievement of the Gupta Empire connected India to China.

What is a road system? 

300

Historians called Gupta rule a golden age because of this.

What are advances in arts and sciences?

300

Guptas gave local areas more independence than the Mauryas by doing this. 

What is set up provinces in which leaders could make many of their own decisions?

300

Prince Arjuna is a character in this Gupta work.

What is the Bhagavad Gita?

300

This was an important artistic feature of the Ajanta cave paintings.

What is a rich, bright color?

300

This feature of modern mathematics came to the Gupta Empire by way of India. 

What is zero?

400

Books created on palm leaves are an example of an achievement in this.

What is literature?

400

It's about how long the Gupta Empire lasted. 

What is 200 years?

400

These forms of literature were created by Gupta writers (Must include all).

What are plays, poems, and folktales?

400

What is one material from which Gupta Sculpture was created?

What is bronze, stone, terracotta, and wood?

400

These were constructed along trade routes to provide travelers with the ability to cook and drink. 

What are wells?

500

This is the writing form used in the Gupta Empire.  

What is sanskrit?

500

While traveling the silk road, these were often used for travel. 

What are camels?

500

It's what these are:

Mahabarhata

Bhagavad Gita

Puruans

What are Hindu texts/Sanskrit Literature?

500

These two characteristics were used to depict the Buddha. 

What are lowered eyes and a calm face?

500

This group of people made it possible to construct complex sstructures like stone temples. 

Who are mathematicians?