Life and Times of The Guptan Emipre: Into

It's 450 and I'm in the outskirts of the Himalaya Mountains getting ready to go on my adventure into India. So I'm out and it seems like my only possible form of transportation is a donkey...It has been a long and miserable trip but I'm finally here. It is quite different from my homeland, they are very technologically advanced. At first I needed to get accustomed to it all because we did not have any of this were I'm from.

Like I said they are way ahead of the rest of the world technological wise. They had astronomy, literature, mathematics, medicine and plenty more. I did know some things though like, metalwork and paintings. The thing that fascinated me the most though were universities. There is plenty to talk about, it's my first time leaving my home so there is still plenty to talk about.

Life and Times of The Gupta Empire: Part I

Paintings, roads and sculptures were some things I was kinda familiar with. Guptans were known for their paintings. The only thing different here then back home was that wealthy and educated people painted here. Roads were very important for Guptan society. They used them for numerous things that they needed to be done to keep their Empire going.

Guptans used roads for agriculture, construction, and trades. The roads connected India and the Middle East. They were made from hard packed dirt. Sculptures were far more important then painting in Gupta. The made their sculptures from terracotta and from that they formed sculptures of their gods.

Life and Times of the Gupta Empire: Part II

Some other things I was not very familiar with were universities, medicine, and astronomy. Medicine seemed out of this world. Guptans had free hospital care and took donations, they also prescribed powders. I have never even heard about universities and education. It was a patriarchal society so only males went to school and you had to be of a higher social class. I still don’t fully understand Schools.

Their universities seemed odd but yet brilliant at the same time, I don’t know why no one else thought of it. Universities were also built near religious buildings. Astronomy was also rather odd, I was just thought of them as stars and nothing beyond that. The Guptans had the best astronomers out there, far better then the Greeks. Aryabheta was the best though, he was the one who created the 365.258 days in a year. He also figured out all planets were spheres.

Life and Times of The Gupta Empire: Part III

And they had some other interesting things such as metalwork, mathematics and literature. Metalwork I already am somewhat familiar with. Experts down there worked with gold and copper. I’m still confused on how they got that advanced, over half the things over there I’ve never seen and yet I’m a metalworker myself. They often made coins to honor rulers. As for mathematics, I was never exposed to much to that so it was new to me. They created the digits 1-9. Guptans were very advanced.

What a surprise Guptans were also advanced in literature. Mahabarata is still to this day one of the longest poems ever written and Furahas were holy texts. Dharmagastras were basic laws that they had to follow. Literature was one of the Guptans main and more important achievements.

Life and Times of the Gupta Empire: Conclusion

This was a very enjoyable and a great learning experience that I am thankful for being able to be a part of. I learned a lot on this trip that I would never get to experience back in the homeland. Were I’m from we wouldn’t even hear about half this stuff, like an education? It all makes sense though. I think most empires built off of the Guptan Empire. And honestly they did change the outcome of the future for the better. But like I said all in all it was a great experience.