What did people use to make sculptures that, for example, depicted human form with neat detail?
100
Sanskrit
What language did scholars learn?
100
For safety and comfort
Why did the Gupta build roads?
100
Males, though teachers daughter were also aloud to attend
Who was aloud to go to universities?
200
By arranging marriages of their children (alliances) and war (conquering territory).
How did the Guptas form alliances and get territory?
200
Noble families
What people used art to depict religious topics in their homes and considered a home incomplete without an art set?
200
A decimal system, a way of expressing numbers using one through nine, and fractions, and the first to use zero as number, and a system we still use as math today which some consider Arabic
What are mathematical achievements of the Guptas?
200
Ditches or canals
What was on the side of the roads?
200
The arts and religion, math, chemistry, astronomy, and Sanskrit.
What were students at the universities taught?
300
Provinces
What were large section of territory in the Guptas divided their area into called?
300
Gold and Copper coins
What did ancient Gupta Empire metalworkers make?
300
So that they could be preserved for a long time
Why were stories that were only spread by voice written on paper?
300
Signs
What marked places on the road way for people to know where they were, and where the nearest safe place was to stay?
300
The Upper class only.
What class was aloud to attend universities?
400
A central Government's
Whose job was it to oversee the Gupta Empire?
400
Ajanta cave murals
What are the murals that make up 30 cave walls and depict the Buddha's life, and values?
400
The Bhagavad Gita and Mahabharata
What are two stories that reflect Hindu cultural beliefs (values such as strength, truth of religion, good, and evil)?
400
The desired place for the road was cleared off, then filled up with dirt. Next, workers leveled the ground.
How were the roads of the Gupta Empire built?
400
How question patients about bodily issues, using the front claws of giant ants to sew up wounds, and make cures from plants and minerals.
What were doctors taught?
500
Golden Age
What was the result of peaceful times, and stability in the Gupta Empire that caused academics and art to develop?
500
The iron pillar at Meharauli
What is 25 feet tall, made of iron, and weighs 13,000 pounds?
500
Aryabhata
Who combined astronomy and math, found the length of a year, found the approximate size of the earth, said planets are spheres, and proposed the earth spins on an axis?
500
The let people travel territory more easily, allowed the moving of products, and caused business to flourish
How did the roads of the Gupta Empire benefit trade?
500
Nalanda
What famous ancient Indian university had eight colleges, and three libraries; a hospital; and monastery, where students learned philosophy?