India’s Achievements

Literature Math Science

Literature• Wrote poetry in the ancient language of

Sanskrit• Created fables – short stories with a moral or

lesson at the end

Math• Developed Hindu-Arabic numerals and the

concept of zero as a number• Created the decimal system –counting system

based on units of ten

Science

• First to understand that the Earth is round & it rotates on its own axis to create day and night

• Made progress is metallurgy - extracting metal from ore and using it to create useful objects