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THE GUPTA EMPIRE After the Maurya empire; - India broke into small kingdoms; - Invaders and traders brought new ideas; - Indians build these ideas to make their own advances – art, literature, math, and science. 1.A New Empire in India – 500 years after the Mauryas – the Gupta dynast...

THE GUPTA EMPIRE After the Maurya empire; - India broke into small kingdoms; - Invaders and traders brought new ideas; - Indians build these ideas to make their own advances – art, literature, math, and science. 1.A New Empire in India – 500 years after the Mauryas – the Gupta dynasty in northern India; - Chandra Gupta I – ruled from a.d. 320 to a.d. 335. He controlled the kingdom Ganges Basin; - Samundra Gupta “Exterminator of Kings” – conquered lands south and west. - Chandra Gupta II – Gupta Empire reached its greatest size; - Guptas against centralized government Mauryas – for; - Provinces – governors, villages and cities – councils/leading families sent representatives; - City council – guilds/merchants/, craftsmen; Maurya against Gupta – PEOPLE Subjects – subjects with CITIZENSHIP; The last Gupta ruler died around 540 CITIZENSHIP – status with political rights and obligations 2. A Rich Culture – literature, painting and architecture. The Guptas favored Hinduism; - Literature flourished – poet Kalidasa; - Popular form of literature – fable /short story with moral, or lesson, at the end/. 2.1. Music, Dance, and Entertainment – Indian DRAMA combined stories, dance, and music; - Guptas invented the chess; - First chess sets represented an Indian army – king, war chariots, horse soldiers, etc.; - The game spread – Asia, Middle East and Europe. 2.2. Architecture and Painting – many Buddhists and Hindus temples were built; - Architecture – free- standing temples, monasteries, carved temples and monasteries into the rocks of cliffs – rock-cut shrines of Ellora. 3. Mathematics and Science – influenced from Greece and Persia; - The Decimal System - concept of 0 as a number and as NUMERAL; - The greatest advance of Indian mathematicians – DECIMAL SYSTEM; - The basis for the Arabic numerals NUMERAL – symbol used to represent a number DECIMAL SYSTEM – counting system based on units of ten 3.1. A New World of Mathematics – combining a decimal system with a numeral for 0 transformed mathematics; - Operations such as multiplication, algebra; - Aryabhata –wrote a book in a.d. 499 – arithmetic, algebra, and trigonometry; 3.2. Astronomy – Aryabhata was the first astronomer to state that the Earth rotates, or spins, on its axis to create day and night; - Eclipses were caused by the motion of Earth and the moon; - Moon shines because it reflects sunlight. 3.3. Medicine – Indians developed a system of medicine known as Ayurveda; - Ayurveda textbook – more than 1000 disease, how to make medicines from plants, animal plants, and minerals. 3.4. Metallurgy – produced metal compounds – The Iron Pillar of Delhi /23-foot-high column was made from a single piece of iron; - More than 1,500 years without turning to rust. METALLURGY – the science that deals with EXTRACTING metal from ore EXTRACTING – remove, draw out  Creative Writing "A Day in the Life of a Subject in the Maurya Empire“ Objective: To explore the lives of people under Chandragupta’s rule. Activity: Write a diary or short story from the perspective of a subject living under Chandragupta's rule. You should focus on: The strict control, surveillance, and lack of freedom. The roles of slaves, prisoners of war, and ordinary citizens.