Rich literacy was tradition in India. More that 2,000 "Tamil" Poems(Poems of the Tamil people which were famous and generally inspirational) still exist today.
Drama was very popular and the most famous play was and still is Shakuntala. It tells of a forbidden love between two people. Dancing was also very popular and many Indian dances today are from between 1st century BC and 1st century AD. Astronomy can into popularity as more sailors on trading ships used the stars to travel and soon they also adapted Western time from the Greeks. Soon they also started to use a calendar based on the cycle of the sun instead of the moon, as well as have 7 day weeks dividing each day into hours. |