South Asia, 300-1200

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  1. 6. a bond between families, states, or other groups to further their common interests
  2. 7. one of the most famous Indo-Islamic buildings in India
  3. 8. a line on which an object spins, and the imaginary line through the Earth’s center
  4. 9. the empire that ruled much of southern India from 800 CE to 1300 CE
  5. 12. Persian mathematician who created the study of algebra
  6. 13. the location of the most famous Buddhist university
  7. 15. the ___________ Empire unified India from 320 CE to 550 CE
  8. 20. a philosophy in which people are taught to discover truth for themselves
  9. 21. divine beings who delayed nirvana to help others in Buddhism
  10. 22. the most famous Gupta mathematician
  11. 24. provided travelers with a place to relax or spend the night along roads
  12. 27. a period of great happiness, prosperity, and achievement
  13. 28. the field of medicine that Hindu doctors were particularly skilled at performing
  14. 29. the ____________ Empire was the first to unify India
  15. 30. a territory that is part of a country or an empire
  16. 31. a material used by Gupta metalworkers to make coins
  17. 32. a pillar in Delhi made of this material has remained rust free after 1,600 years
  18. 33. types of devotional worship to specific Hindu deities that appeared during the Gupta period
  19. 34. the study of the stars and planets
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  1. 1. the collection of Hindu legends that taught the lessons of the Vedas
  2. 2. a system developed by Indian mathematicians that has different values based on their “place”
  3. 3. the study of numbers
  4. 4. a type of clay used by Gupta sculptors
  5. 5. texts unearthed from the Guptas containing sacred texts
  6. 10. the shared language of Indian intellectual life
  7. 11. the branch of Buddhism that became popular in China and focused on salvation through personal faith
  8. 14. the ____________ cave murals are perhaps the greatest known Indian paintings
  9. 16. meaning “Song of the Lord,” this poem features Prince Arjuna and Krishna
  10. 17. the first ruler of the Gupta Empire who conquered and united the northern kingdoms of India
  11. 18. meaning “Great Work”; a Hindu poem composed over hundreds of years
  12. 19. the Chinese pilgrim who traveled throughout South Asia to learn more about Buddhism
  13. 23. a theory of set of values by which one lives
  14. 25. Hindus were the first to treat this as a number
  15. 26. Gupta universities were primarily open to this group