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Great rulers, brilliant scholars and beautiful art — the Gupta age is remembered as a golden age of creativity in India. Tap each idea and see what made it special.
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The Gupta period brought together great rulers, scholars and artists. Tap each idea to see what made this age such a remarkable time of creativity.
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Long after the Mauryan Empire, the Gupta Empire rose in northern India, from about the fourth century CE. The Gupta period is remembered as a golden age.
Worked example. Why is the Gupta period called a golden age?
Because science, mathematics, art and literature all flourished during it. When so many fields reach great heights at the same time, historians call that period a golden age.
The Gupta Empire had several rulers. Two are especially remembered:
The Gupta age left behind achievements we still value today:
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The decimal place-value system and the use of zero, which flourished in India in the Gupta era, are the basis of the number system the whole world counts and calculates with today.
Scholars such as Aryabhata studied the skies and the movement of the heavens. Their work laid early roots for the study of astronomy in India.
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Interactive built to the OpenMAIC approach (THU-MAIC, MIT). Content from the NCERT Class 7 Social Science textbook, Exploring Society: India and Beyond (ncert.nic.in).
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