Ancient Indian Achievements

What were some of India's achievements?

• Cars with wheels

• Pyramids as graves for the rich

• Houses had baths, toilets, running water, drains and a center courtyard

• Tamed animals

Which of the following are architectural achievements of Ancient India?

• Great Wall and Grand Canal

• Great Pyramid and Sphinx

• Indoor plumbing and sewage systems

• Ziggurat and Temple of Luxor

Advances in what science allowed people in the Indus Valley to plan planting and harvesting around annual flooding?

• Metallurgy

• Biology

• Astronomy

• Chemistry

The Harappan Civilization probably traded with the Mesopotamians by sailing across the...

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Arctic Ocean

Things Ashoka had done

• Built a navy to conquer new territories

• Established a network of casinos

• Introduced a tax system to fund his military campaigns

• Spread Buddhism, established hospitals and veterinary clinics, created pillars with inscriptions promoting moral values, implemented policies to improve welfare

Ancient Indians developed the field of science known as ________, which studies the movements of planets and stars.

• Astronomy

• Biology

• Chemistry

• Geology

The Indian invention of _________ around A.D. 500 had a great impact on the study of mathematics and science.

• geometry

• zero

• plastic surgery

• algorithms

The ancient Indians were the first people to create the mathematical concept of zero.

• true

• false

Gupta Empire astronomers figured out that the __________________ was round 

• Earth

• sun

• moon

• sky

Which empire is described as the Golden Age of classical Indian culture?

• Gupta Empire

• Harappa Empire

• Indo-Aryan Empire

• Mauryan Empire