Objectives 06.07 ancient india - module project after completing this lesson, you will be able to: explore the relationship of civilizations to trade use scale, cardinal, and intermediate directions, and estimate distances between places on maps of the world explain the major beliefs and practices of hinduism and the social structure of the caste system in ancient india recognize the political and cultural achievements of the mauryan and gupta empires explain the teachings of buddha, the importance of ashoka, and how buddhism spread across asia summarize the important achievements and contributions of ancient indian civilization