Indian Achievements

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Indian Achievements

• Key Terms
• Metallurgy
• Alloys
• Hindu-Arabic numerals
• Inoculation
• Astronomy

• Questions to ponder
• How do you think the
• following achievements
• effected life in ancient
• India?
• How do you think the
• following achievements
• effect you today?
• 3. What would life be like
• without these scientific
• advancements?

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Scientific Advances
The pillar is very resistant to rust and is
studied even today.

• The ancient Indians were pioneers of metallurgy,
  the science of working with metals.
• Ancient Indians understood how to mix metals and
  create alloys.
• These alloys were often stronger and easier to
  work with.

Ancient Indians created the Iron Pillar near
Delhi.
How do you think alloys helped ancient Indians?
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Mathematics
Ancient Indians are also believed to have had
an important role in the creation of 0,

• Ancient Indians developed many elements of our
  modern math system.
• The very numbers we use today are called the
  Hindu-Arabic numerals
• They were created by Indian scholars and brought
  to Europe by the Arabs.

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Medicine
Indian doctors Fixed broken bones, Removed
tonsils, And reattached Earlobes.

• As early as the AD 100s, doctors in India were
  making medicines from plants and minerals.
• Besides curing diseases, doctors were able to
  protect others from disease through inoculation.
  
• Indian doctors also performed surgeries.

Inoculation is when a small dose of a virus is
injected into a person to help him or her build
up defense to the disease and protect itself.
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Astronomy

• Ancient Indians were very interested in
  astronomy, the study of stars and planets.
• They were aware of seven of the eight planets.
• They knew the sun was a star.
• They could even predict eclipses of the sun and
  the moon.