Editors, MetMuseum.org; (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History); Wisdom Quarterly Along the Silk Road (Asterix611/flickr.com)The fifth and fourth centuries B.C. were a time of worldwide intellectual ferment. It was an age of great thinkers, such as Socrates and Plato, Confucius and Laozi. In India, it was the Age of the Buddha, after whose passing a religion developed that eventually spread far beyond its homeland.The Gupta period, from the fourth to the sixth century...
