Section 4 Empires of China and India Reading Focus • What features defined Indian society and trade during the Gupta period? • What were major cultural and scientific achievements of the Gupta golden age? Main Idea The strength, prosperity, and stability of the Gupta Empire helped lead to a golden age in Indian society, trade, and culture. Indian Society and Culture
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Section 4Empires of China and India
Reading Focus
• What features defined Indian society and trade during the
Gupta period?
• What were major cultural and scientific achievements of the
Gupta golden age?
Main Idea
The strength, prosperity, and stability of the Gupta Empire
helped lead to a golden age in Indian society, trade, and culture.
Indian Society and Culture
Section 4Empires of China and India
• Gupta, Tamil kingdoms in
southern India traded actively
by sea
• Indian sailors used seasonal
winds to reach foreign markets
across Arabian Sea
• Sea trade also between India
and Southeast Asia
• Played key role in cultural
diffusion of Indian culture
Sea Trade
• Indian civilization flourished
during Gupta empire
• Trade increased, economy
strengthened, cities prospered
• Overland routes like the Silk
Roads linked India to other
markets
• Indian merchants traded ivory,
cashmere, cotton, spices for
Chinese silk, Roman ceramics
Growth of Trade
Life in Gupta India
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Extensive Trade:
4c
spices
gold & ivory
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Simple Lives
• Most Gupta people led simple lives in small villages
• Majority of village dwellers, farmers
• Most villages self-sufficient, but trade between villages occurred
• People from different villages got together for religious festivals, other