Our readings in this class mention the Gupta Empire.

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The Achievements and the Fall of the Gupta Empire
Located in today’s North India, the Gupta Empire is the era to which India’s golden age is attributed.
Learning was highly regarded, and this resulted in much advancement in science. For instance, the Arabic numerals were first used in India, the same place zero was discovered by Aryabhata (Datta, 451). At the same time, the game of chess originated in India, and the earliest forms of the aryuvedic medicine trace their cradle back to the Gupta era. Many great essayists and poets lived during that time, including the author of the famous Kamasutra. Some celebrated temples and paintings were created during the same time. In terms of religion, much of success can be attributed to freedom of worship that was not common in other empires of the time (Kulke and Rothermund, 59). Education, philosophy, and intellectualism grew exponentially too.
The fall of the empire was as a result of a successive weakening of leadership, which saw the invasion by the Huns (Kulke and Rothermund, 60). Besides, there was a gradual growth in the strength of the local princes, and therefore the empire disintegrated into provinces, and this saw the end of the era in 550 CE.

Works Cited
Datta, Bibhutibuhusan. “Early Literary Evidence of the use of the Zero in India.” The American Mathematical Monthly 33.9 (1926): 449-454.
Kulke, Hermann, and Dietmar Rothermund. A History of India. Psychology Press, 2004.