India’s Achievements Literature Math Science

Literature Wrote poetry in the ancient language of Sanskrit Created fables – short stories with a moral or lesson at the end

Math Developed Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concept of zero as a number Created the decimal system –counting system based on units of ten

Science First to understand that the Earth is round & it rotates on its own axis to create day and night Made progress is metallurgy - extracting metal from ore and using it to create useful objects