Guptan Empire
In 319 AD, the king Chandragupta II (the second) managed to unite all of northern India into a great empire again. (He was not related to the first Chandragupta, but he wanted people to think he was). Even some of the south was brought under Guptan power. The Gupta kings were not Buddhists but Hindus, following the older Indian religion.
Under the Guptan kings, India was very rich and powerful. Peace allowed traders to travel safely, and there was more trade between India and China, passing through Sogdiana in Central Asia. Buddhist pilgrims and Indian and Chinese scientists also traveled between China and India. This travel may have helped Indian mathematicians to make important advances in mathematics at this time, like inventing the number zero.
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But in 455 AD the Huns invaded India from the north and destroyed the Guptan Empire. After that, India was split into small kingdoms again until the Muslim invasions around 1000 AD.
Guptan architecture
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