Notes from today.
Advancements in Medicine, Literature, Math, Astronomy, and Performing Arts
- Ayuveda (life knowledge) is the ancient science of medicine
- Used herbal medicine
- Believed their body have 3 types of energy that controlled the body and affected
- Dental surgery and plastic surgery
Literature
- Greatest time for poetry and drama
- Well known writer of this time was Kalidasa(was and Indian poet)
- Sanskrit- classical language in India
- Sruti- listened to or heard
- Smriti- remembered or memorized
Math
- Decimal number system still used today
- Made early contributions to the study of the concept of zero as a number, negative, arithmetic and algebra.
- Sutras- set of ruled or problems in verse to help the student memorize them
- Prose commentary- composed by several scholars that described the problem in detail
Astronomy
- Ancient India used stars and planets to create astrological charts
- Calculation of occurrences of eclipses
- Aryabhata- presented a mathematical system that the sun spins on an axis and considered the motion of the planets in respect to the sun.
Performing Arts
- Music and Dance for entertainment
- Always a time for dancing and music
- Started out for kings then went to public entertainment
- Theatres were used to act out stories.
Indian Trade
Traded items
- Silk
- Wines
- Weapons
- Jewelry
- Jade
- Gold
- Cloth
Silk Roads
- Name given to any route that led across China to Rome
- 4,000 mile trip
- Rome had gold silver and gems
- China had silk, spices and ivory
- Ideas also traveled along the Silk Road, ideas that effected everyone
- Very difficult and dangerous to travel along
Silk
- Romans found silk in civilizations they conquered and it became very popular with the people but it was scarce.
- They wanted more silk but didn’t know who was making the material.
- Tried to find the traders with silk
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