Ancient India Review

Question 1

Which of the following choices is a historical site related to the Indus River civilizations?

Accepted Answer

Mohenjo-Daro

Question 2

Which of the following choices shows how trade affected the Gupta Dynasty?

Accepted Answer

Trade brought prosperity and wealth

Question 3

Which religion considers the Ganges River a sacred place

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 4

What resulted from Alexander the Great’s invasion of the Indus River Valley?

Accepted Answer

Indus Valley kingdoms were weakened

Question 5

Which of the following choices is a mathematical development from India?

Accepted Answer

The concept and symbol of zero

Question 6

What did the Aryans use to determine wealth?

Accepted Answer

Number of cattle

Question 7

Which religion has a single founder

Accepted Answer

Buddhism

Question 8

What is the name given to the social system established by the Aryans?

Accepted Answer

The caste system

Question 9

Which religion believes in Nirvana

Accepted Answer

Buddhism

Question 10

Where did the initial settlements form on the Indian subcontinent?

Accepted Answer

The Indus River Valley

Question 11

True or False: Three major landforms are the Himalayas, Deccan Plateau and the Ganges Plain.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Which religion can be seen as non-theistic

Accepted Answer

Buddhism

Question 13

Which religion's sacred texts include the Vedas

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 14

True or False: The Guptas believed in Hinduism

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Which religion believes in reincarnation

Accepted Answer

Both Hinduism and Buddhism

Question 16

Harappans traded with people from...

Accepted Answer

Mesopotamia

Question 17

Which religion believes in Moksha

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 18

Which of the following choices is one of the oldest religions in the world?

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 19

Which religion developed on the Indian subcontinent?

Accepted Answer

Both Hinduism and Buddhism

Question 20

What were the texts that were important to ancient India’s religion?

Accepted Answer

Mahabharata and Ramayana

Question 21

The reign of the Gupta Dynasty is seen as a golden age of…

Accepted Answer

Art and learning

Question 22

Who had founded the Mauryan dynasty?

Accepted Answer

Chandragupta Maurya

Question 23

All of the following are ancient Indian mathematical developments except...

Accepted Answer

Value of pi

Question 24

How did monsoons affect the development of India’s first civilizations?

Accepted Answer

Monsoons brought soil-enriching floods that helped farmers

Question 25

True or False: The Mauryans believed in Buddhism

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

Why is India referred to as a subcontinent?

Accepted Answer

Mountains separate India from Asia

Question 27

Ancient India developed an early form of plastic surgery.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

Why is the Ganges plain good for living?

Accepted Answer

These are all correct answers

Question 29

Which of the following choices is not one of the accomplishments of the Mauryan Dynasty?

Accepted Answer

The development of metallurgy

Question 30

Which of the following choices shows a difference between the Mauryan and Gupta Dynasties?

Accepted Answer

The Mauryan Empire was larger than the Gupta Empire

Question 31

What is the order of the caste system? (bottom to top)

Accepted Answer

Untouchables, Sudra, Vaishya, Kshatriya, Brahim

Question 32

Where did the first Indian settlements develop?

Accepted Answer

The Indus River Valley

Question 33

Which religion follows the Noble Eightfold Path

Accepted Answer

Buddhism

Question 34

Why do Monsoons occur?

Accepted Answer

Because of the difference in temperature of the land and sea

Question 35

Which religion can be seen as polytheistic

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 36

What were two early Indian settlements that were developed around 2500 B.C?

Accepted Answer

Mohenjo-Daro & Harappa

Question 37

Why is it difficult to fully understand the Indus River civilizations?

Accepted Answer

They left few historical records

Question 38

On which continent is India located?

Accepted Answer

Asia

Question 39

Which of the following choices are the two major river systems on the Indian subcontinent?

Accepted Answer

Ganges River and Indus River

Question 40

Who was the founder of the Gupta Dynasty?

Accepted Answer

Chandragupta II

Question 41

What was the Aryan written language?

Accepted Answer

Sanskrit

Question 42

Which religion has no single founder

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 43

Which landform is where many settlements formed on the Indian subcontinent?

Accepted Answer

The Ganges Plain

Question 44

Which of the following choices is the first great Buddhist emperor of India?

Accepted Answer

Asoka

Question 45

What is a reason why the Aryans developed the caste system?

Accepted Answer

It helped them control the people they conquered

Question 46

Which religion is considered a Dharmic religion

Accepted Answer

Both Hinduism and Buddhism

Question 47

Which of the following choices is not a part of the subcontinent settled by the Aryans?

Accepted Answer

Sri Lanka

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