Buildings Paintings and Books Test - 4

According to this map, metallurgy developed earliest in Western Europe during the fourth and third millennia BC.

Kalidasa was a Sanskrit poet and dramatist, probably the greatest Indian writer of any epoch. His notable works include the play Abhijnana Shakuntalam. It is a drama depicting love, separation & reunion of King Dushyanta, Sakuntala & their son Bharata.

Euclidi	Euclidi is the Greek mathematician credited with laying the foundation for modern geometry and arithmetic.
Hippocratus	Hippocratus is known as Father of modern medicine. His contribution to medicine include detailed observations of disease and its effects, and an understanding of how health is often influenced by diet, breakdowns in bodily processes, and the environment.
Hipparcus	Distance between earth and moon
Ptolemy	Earth at centre of universe

The Development of metallurgy was very significant for the field of agriculture and warfare. Better tools meant better crops and less efforts. Many guilds of skilled workers also developed as a result of this development.

Idol workship in India can be traced to the period of Pre - Aryans. The Indus Valley people seemed to have a tradition of honoring their deities in image form with ritual worship.They also probably worshipped animals , mythical creatures , plants , kings and gods who resembled humans. According to historians, the practice of worshipping fertility gods and goddesses, ritual bathing, and the use of stone symbols, icons and images in their worship was probably prevalent in the Indus Valley urban communities.

According to the legends, Ramayana was written by Maharishi Valmiki. Ramayana, originally written by Valmiki, consists of 24,000 shlokas. The epic narrates the life of Shri Ram Chandra, the legendary prince of Kosala Kingdom, his banishment from the kingdom by his father, King Dasharatha, his travels across forests in India with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana, the kidnapping of his wife by Ravana, the demon king of Lanka, resulting in a war with him, and Rama's eventual return to Ayodhya to be crowned king.

Fa-Hien  a Chinese Buddhist monk visited India during the reign of Chandragupta II and he was most known for his pilgrimage to Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautama Buddha in modern Nepal and later wrote a book on his travels, filled with accounts of early Buddhism, and the geography and history of numerous countries along the Silk Roads as they were, at the turn of the 5th century CE.

People first began making things from metal over 9000 years ago, when they discovered how to get copper from its ore. They then learned how to make a harder alloy, bronze, by adding tin to the copper. About 3000 years ago, they discovered iron.