Social Studies Ancient India (Ch.5 sec.5)

India artists of the Maurya and Gupta periods created great works of art, often o a religious nature.

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

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The ancient Indians were masters of metallurgy, the science of working with wood.

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

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The Mahabharata, one of the longest literary works in the world, contains many pages about Sanskrit.

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The Burgundar is the most famous of the passages from the Metallurgy.

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

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An alloy is a separate of two or more metals.

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The numerals we use today were created by Indian scholars and brought to Europe by Arabs.

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

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