Indian Achievements

​You will complete a short read and answer the question. You are required to write 2-3 complete sentences. make sure that you are using correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. You will only have 5 minutes to complete the bell ringer there will be no exceptions!

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If YOU were there...

You are a traveler in Western India in the 300s. You are visiting a
cave temple that is carved into a mountain cliff. Inside the cave it is
cool and quiet. Huge columns rise all around you. You don’t feel
you’re alone, for the walls and ceilings are covered with paintings.
They are filled with lively scenes and figures. In the center is a large
statue with calm, peaceful features.

Question: How does the cave make you feel?

​Module 5: Lesson 6-Indian Achievements

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Standard:7.3:-Demonstrate an understanding of the development of civilization in the Indus Valley.

Objective:7.3.3-Describe various aspects of culture, including language, art, architecture.

Objective: 7.3.5-Trace the influence of trade on the development of Indus River Valley.

I can Statement: “I can trace the influence of trade and describe how language, art, and architecture reflect the uniqueness of the Indus valley civilization..”

​Indian Empire Trade

​Indian rulers built roads throughout their empire, connecting neighboring cities together this improved travel & trade. It also allowed for more interactions and communication among people and encouraged the exchange of cultures, religion and ideas. The Indian empire shared their ideas and inventions of scientific, mathematical, and cultural achievements throughout travel and trade. One of the most influential contributions of the Indian empire was the creation of their numeric system.

Multiple Choice

What did the Indian empire share throughout trade?

• art and music

• science and literature

• ideas and inventions

• contributions

Indian Achievements

India created a stable environment where artists,
writers, scholars, and scientists could thrive. Their
works are still admired today. Much of the Indian art from this period was religious, inspired by both Hindu and Buddhist teachings. Many beautiful
temples were built during this time and decorated with elaborate wood and stone carvings.

Multiple Choice

India created a stable environment so their ______, _______, _______, _____ could strive.

• teachers, priests, farmers, merchants

• artist, writers, scholars, scientist

• servants, slaves, warriors, knights

• girls, women, mean, boys

1.

Scientific and scholarly work also blossomed during the early Indian empires. Most
prominent was the development of metallurgy, the science of working with metals. I

2.

They also invented processes for mixing metals to create Alloys, a mixture of two or more metals.

3.

The numbers we use today, is called Hindu-Arabic numerals. The Indians were the first people to create the zero. Modern math would not be possible without the zero.

4.

4. Other sciences also benefited from this period of Indian history. In medicine, Indians developed the technique of inoculation, which is injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help him or her build up defenses to a disease. When people were injured, Indian doctors performed surgery. Surgeons repaired broken bones, treated wounds, removed infected tonsils, reconstructed broken noses, and even reattached torn earlobes. If they could not find a cure for an illness, doctors performed magic spells to help people recover.

5.

India’s fascination with astronomy, the study of stars and planets, led to the discovery of
seven of the planets of our solar system.

​ Scientific Advances

Multiple Choice

The Indians invented a process of a mixture of two or more metals called _____________.

• iron

• alloys

• cement

• compounds

Multiple Choice

What is injecting people with a small dose of virus to help build up defenses to a disease

• astrnomy

• alloy

• metallurgy

• inoculation

Great works of literature were written in Sanskrit, the first ancient Indian language. The greatest of these Sanskrit writings are two religious epics. The Mahabharata and the Ramayana The Ramayana is the story of the Prince Rama, a human incarnation of one of the three major Hindu gods, Vishnu, who fights demons and marries the beautiful Princess Sita.

​ Literature

Multiple Choice

What was the main language of the Aryans?

• Hindu

• Croatin

• Hieroglyphics

• Sanskrit

Multiple Choice

is much of the Indian art still being admired today

• True

• False

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Multiple Choice

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

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What is the study of the stars and planets?

• geology

• alloy

• astronomy

• astrology

Multiple Choice

The Indian people were very good at medicine

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

the numbers that we use today is called ________.

• Numerical Order

• Hindu-Arabic Numerals

• Roman Numerals

• Numerical Expressions

Multiple Choice

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

• metallurgy

• alloy

• mosiac

• dharma

Multiple Choice

What would ancient Indian doctors do if they couldn't cure a disease?

• pray for them

• Euthanize the person

• cast a magic spell

• let them die

Multiple Choice

What Hindu God fought a demon and married a beautiful Princess?

• Vishnu

• Hercules

• Amon Ra

• Menes