Calligraphy a. was considered a sacred and respectable form of art. b. can be found only in islamic art. c. was used along side figural imagery. d. was first used by islamic artists during the 15th century.

a.  was considered a sacred and respectable form of art.

Explanation:

Calligraphy is the art of writing beautifully, artistically and correctly formed, following different styles; but it can also be understood as the set of features that characterize the writing of a person or a document.

Chinese culture attaches great importance to calligraphy. This is based on the visual beauty of the ideograms, the technique of their realization and the metaphysical precepts of traditional Chinese culture. Tradition states that Chinese characters, the oldest known form of writing of those existing today, were invented by Cang Jie (around 2650 BC). Another tradition traces its creation to the times of Fuxi, the legendary first emperor of China.

explanation:

these are the geographical features of the gupta empire.

1)it inherited the land owned by the mauryan empire.

2)one obvious difference between the two empires is that the gupta empire was smaller that the mauryan.

3)the gupta empire is located in the northern region of the subcontinent underneath the himalayan and hindu kush mountains.

the gupta empire, marked by extensive inventions and discoveries that contributed to hindu culture, in subjects such as science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy.

this period was also known as the golden age of india

mass production/ assembly line production