TCI Social Studies Chapter 18 Vocabulary Words

Success, wealth, and luxury The good life

A thing done successfully, typically by effort, courage, or skill

The empire covering much of northern India that was rules by the Guptas from about 320 C.

E. to about 550 C.E.

King of India Reigning from 320 to 330 C.E.

Founder of the imperial Gupta dynasty

A bond between families, states, or other groups to further their common interest

In ancient India, Nalanda meaning "giver of knowledge" Was a once thriving monastic-university known as a center of learning and for its large library of sacred texts

A territory that is part of a country or an empire

A period of great happiness, prosperity, and achievement

A theory or set of values by which one lives The search for wisdom and knowledge

The study of numbers, equations, functions, and geometric shapes and their relationships

The science that deals with the universe beyond Earth It describes the nature, position, and motion of the stars, planets, and other objects in the skies, and their relation to Earth

"Great Work" A poem composed over hundreds of years, reaching its final form during the Gupta era

"Ancient Lore" A collection of Hindu legends that taught the lessons of the Vedas, or sacred Hindu texts, through tales of sages and kings

Part of the Mahabharata meaning "Song of the Lord" In this poem, Prince Arjuna is taught truths of Hinduism by Krishna, and earthly form of the deity Vishnu

The greatest ancient Indian paintings covering the walls of 30 caves that are part of and ancient Buddhist monastery in central India

A river deity Her sculpture shows her riding on the back of a sea monster

Place where Gupta metalworkers built an iron pillar which demonstrated their advanced metalworking skills

Any if the numerals, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 Arabic numerals reached western Europe through Arabia, replacing Roman numerals, by about AD 1200, but originated in India

First in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy

An imaginary line about which a body rotates A fixed reference line for the measurement of coordinates