Gupta Empire The Gupta Empire 320 550 CE

Gupta Empire

The Gupta Empire (320 -550 CE)

Three Emperors Founder: Chandragupta (ruled 320 -330) Samudragupta (ruled 330 -375) Chandragupta II (ruled 375 -415)

Expansion of the Maurya Empire

Gupta Cave Shrines Udayagiri The Caves image below is of a sculpture carved out of a cave wall of the Hindu god Vishnu in a boar-headed incarnation. It is roughly 23 feet tall and 13 feet wide.

Ajanta The Caves Ajanta Caves are covered in carvings and paintings that depict the lives of the Buddha.

Watch an excerpt of “Ancient India’s Contributions to the World” (7: 37 - 10: 33) Watch an excerpt of “Ancient India’s Contributions to the World” (23: 16 - 26: 38) about stepwells.

Question Week

The “ 5 Whys” originated in Japan and is credited to Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Industries. For decades, the company used the practice of asking “why” five times in succession as a means of getting to the root of a particular problem. For example, when a faulty car part came out of a factory, asking why the first time would yield the most obvious answer (e. g. , an assembly line worker made a mistake). But by then asking why the mistake occurred, an underlying cause might surface—such as, insufficient training on that task. Asking why again, the company might discover the training program was underfunded, which would lead to questioning why it was underfunded.

Practice Time Use the “ 5 Whys” to expand your concept map