Gupta's and the Golden Age

- most powerful kingdoms
- Gupta emperors organized a strong central government
- promoted peace and prosperity
- Gupta's ruled from 320 A.D. to 540 A.D.
- known as the golden age
- power was in individual villages and city governments
- big on trade and farming
- students educated in religious schools
- advanced in math: decimal system, numerals
- Indian physicians trained to treat illnesses
- surgeons could set bones and preform surgeries
- doctors vaccinated people
- advanced writers
- decline from weak rulers, civil wars and invaders
- White Huns came in a took over cities