Discuss the progress made in the field of Science, technology, art and architecture during the gupta period.
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→The period between the 4th century and 6th century CE is known as the Golden Age of India because of the large achievements
→Indians made in the fields of science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion and philosophy during the Gupta Empire.
→The decimal numeral system, including the concept of zero, was invented in India during this period. The peace and prosperity created under leadership of Gupta enabled the pursuit of scientific and artistic endeavors in India.
→ The Gupta period produced scholars such as Kalidasa, Aryabhatta, Varahamihira, Vishnu Sharma, and Vatsyayana who made great advancements in many academic fields.
→ Gupta made novel advances in the sciences, astronomy (Gupta philosophers proposed that the earth was not at, but was instead round and rotated on an axis by viewing a lunar eclipses and discoveries about gravity and the planets of the solar system, which they used to tell the horoscopes), mathematics (the invention of zero, chess and decimal numeral system), literature (Ramayana and Mahabharata, Hitopadesha, Panchatantra, Kama Sutra and other works), architecture (Mahabodhi Temple) and religion.