- Environment of peace & prosperity allow scientific & artistic achievement to flourish
- Education at religious institutions
- Mathematics:
- Development of zero & decimal system
- Arabic numerals because Arabs brought them from India to Middle East
-Medicine:
-Used herbs to treat illnesses
- Set bones & facial injures with plastic surgery
- Vaccinated small pox 1,000 years before in Europe
Architecture:
- Stone temples
- Temples filled with carvings of god
- Hindu: Created shrines that were plain, but gateways are very elaborate
- Gateways depicted beginning of life of Buddha
- Literature:
- Fables and Folktales in Sanskrit, where carried West c
- Kalidasa most famous called Shakuntala

Contributions:

Gupta Empire

General:

- Came in power in 320 AD - 550 AD
- United Indian Sub continent, ensured peace
- Hinduism strong impact on society & culture