Culture
-Expansion of trade helped advances in science
-Sailors used start to figure out their position in the ocean so knowledge of astronomy grew
-Greek invaders helped Indians adapt to Western methods of time
-Made a calender based on the cycles of the sun instead of the moon and made a seven-day week and divided each day into hours
-About 1,000 years before Christopher Columbus, Indian astronomers figured out the Earth was round
-Modern numerals, zero, and the decimal system were all invented in India
-Around A.D. 500 an Indian named Aryabhata figured out the value of pi and the length of a solar year
-Two medical guides were created that described more than 1,000 diseases and 500 medicinal plants
-Hindu physicians gave surgeries, such as plastic surgery and might have given injections
-Sailors used start to figure out their position in the ocean so knowledge of astronomy grew
-Greek invaders helped Indians adapt to Western methods of time
-Made a calender based on the cycles of the sun instead of the moon and made a seven-day week and divided each day into hours
-About 1,000 years before Christopher Columbus, Indian astronomers figured out the Earth was round
-Modern numerals, zero, and the decimal system were all invented in India
-Around A.D. 500 an Indian named Aryabhata figured out the value of pi and the length of a solar year
-Two medical guides were created that described more than 1,000 diseases and 500 medicinal plants
-Hindu physicians gave surgeries, such as plastic surgery and might have given injections