CHAPTER 5 SECTION 5 INDIAN ACHIEVEMENTS

RELIGIOUS ART MAURYANS AND GUPTANS CREATED GREAT WORKS OF ART MANY OF THEM REFLECTED HINDU AND BUDDHIST TEACHINGS MAGNIFICENT TEMPLES BUILT AT THIS TIME TEMPLES BECAME MORE AND MORE ORNATE- WITH CARVINGS AND IDOLS OF THEIR GODS

STUPA- BUDDHIST TEMPLE DOMED ROOF THEY WERE BUILT TO HOUSE BUDDHIST RELICS INDIAN PAINTINGS WERE CLEAR AND COLORFUL TELL US ABOUT DAILY LIFE AND RITUAL IN INDIA

SANSKRIT LITERATURE MAHABARATA AND RAMAYANA- HINDU RELIGIOUS EPICS – TELLS THE STORY OF TWO FAMILIES CONTROLFOR KINGDOM BHAGAVAD GITA- PASSAGE ABOUT HINDU BELIEFS KALIDASA- WROTE PLAYS FOR ROYAL COURT PANCHATANTRA- STORIES INTENDED TO TEACH LESSONS IE FABLES.

SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES PIONEERS OF METTALURGY- THE SCIENCE OF METALWORKING KNEW HOW TO CREATE ALLOYS- A MIX OF METALS EX: BRONZE= COPPER AND TIN IRON WAS STRONGEST BUILT FAMOUS IRON PILLAR IN DELHI

MATHEMATICS HINDU ARABIC NUMBERS- WE USE TODAY CREATED THE ZERO DOCTORS WROTE TEXTBOOKS HERBAL HEALING INOCULATION- INJECTING PERSON WITH SMALL DOSE OF VIRUS TO BUILD IMMUNITY

COULD PERFORM SURGERY- FIX BROKEN BONES, TREAT WOUNDS, REMOVE INFECTED TONSILS, REATTACH TORN EARLOBES ASTRONOMY- KNEW OF SEVEN PLANETS, KNEW SUN WAS A STAR, KNEW EARTH WAS SPHERE COULD PREDICT ECLIPSES