Ch 5 Indian Achievements

Indian artists of the Maurya and Gupta periods created great works of art, often of a __________ nature.

• political
• religious

 Most of the literature created during the Maurya and Gupta periods was written in __________.

• stone
• Sanskrit

The ancient Indians were masters of __________, the science of working with metals.

• metallurgy
• mosaics

Indian doctors understood the concept of __________, which helps build human defenses to a disease

• inoculation
• fasting

 The Mahabharata, one of the longest literary works in the world, contains many passages about __________ beliefs.

• Mayan
• Hindu

The __________ is the most famous of the passages from the Mahabharata

• Bhagavad Gita
• Rigveda

Demonstrating the importance of religion in ancient Indian society, many of the finest works of art from the period can be found in __________.

• Sanskrit
• temples

An __________ is a mixture of two or more metals.

• alloy
• inoculation

The numerals we use today were created by __________ and brought to Europe by Arabs

• Chinese scholars
• Indian scholars

Indian scholars were also skilled in __________, which enabled them to identify seven of the nine planets.

• metallurgy
• astronomy