Holt Ancient Civilization S5I

Indian artists of the Maurya and Gupta periods created great works of art, often

of a ______________nature.

• 1. religious

• 2. Sanskrit

• 3. metallurgy

• 4. inoculation

Many works of ___________literature were created during the

Maurya and Gupta periods.

• religious

• inoculation

• Sanskrit

• metallurgy

The ancient Indians were masters of ____________,the science of

working with metals.

• Sanskrit

• Religious

• Metallurgy

• Alphabet

Indian doctors understood the concept of ______________, which

helps build human defenses to a disease.

• sanskrit

• alloy

• inoculation

• alphabet

The Mahabharata, one of the longest sacred texts in the world, contains many

passages about beliefs.

• Religion

• Alloy

• Sanskrit

• Hindu

The ____________is the most famous of the passages from the

Mahabharata.

• Temples

• Bhagavad Gita

• Hindu

• Alphabet

Demonstrating the importance of religion in ancient Indian society, many of the

finest works of art from the period can be found in _______________.

• Indian

• Bhagavad Gita

• Temples

• astronomy

An _________s a mixture of two or more metals.

• astronomy

• temples

• alloy

• Indian scholars

The numerals we use today were created by _____________and

brought to Europe by Arabs.

• Alphabet

• Indian Scholars

• alloy

• Hindu

Indian scholars were also skilled in ______________, which enabled

them to identify seven of the nine planets.

• Hindu

• astronomy

• space

• Solar System