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Indian Empires and Legacy
Indian Empires and Legacy
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6th grade Social Studies
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** Hard Question!** The most famous of the passages
from the Mahabharata
Ramayana
Bhagavad Gita
Eightfold Path
Rig Veda
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T/ F: The Mauryan and Gupta Empires both united India under a single ruler
True
False
3
T/F: Chandra Gupta I reestablished Hinduism as the main religion of India.
TRUE
FALSE
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Siddhartha Gautama was a strong ruler, the strongest of all the Mauryan emperors.
false
True
5
The ancient Indians did not have telescopes.
true
false
6
India was under Gupta control until the late 400s, when Kalidasa invaded India.
False
True
7
The numerals we use today were created by:
Europeans
Indians
Egyptians
Romans
8
The Mahabharata and other epic poems give guidance about _______________ beliefs
Hindu
Buddhist
Brahman
Sanskrit
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helps build human defenses to a disease
dharma
nonviolence
inoculation
Brahmanism
10
Under the rule of Ayurveda, Indian society continued to grow, and economy became strong.
True
false
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T/F: Chandragupta Maurya ruled using Buddhist principles about nonviolence.
true
false
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What was India like after the fall of the Mauryan Empire?
All of thier enimies united
India was divided for about 500 years.
They fell into a time of famine
The Empire found a new leader quickly
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In the 320s BC a leader named Candragupta Maurya seized control of the Northern part of India.
True
False
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the science/art of working with metals
inoculation
metallurgy
ayurveda
caste
15
What happened after Asoka became a Buddhist?
He gave up the throne
He raised an army of 600,000
He worked to improve the lives of his people.
He went to war with China
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Most of the literature created during the Maurya and Gupta periods was written in___
Harappan
Sanskrit
Cuneiform
Hindu
17
All of the following are surgeries that ancient Indian surgeons could perform except:
fixing broken bones
removing tonsils
fix broken noses
brain surgery
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Which empire would you have preferred to live in?
Babylonian
Maurya
Persian
Gupta
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Rulers of the Gupta dynasty were supportive of the Hindu caste system of social order.
false
True
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Advancements in_____________ enabled them to identify seven of the nine planets.
astronomy
biology
geology
economy
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T/F: Ashoka built hospitals and roads throughout the Mauryan Empire
true
false
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What Hindu beliefs and values still influence most Indian people's behavior today?
reincarnation
nirvana
dharma
caste system
23
All were Indian achievements in astronomy except :
They identified 9 planets
They knew the Earth was round
They could predict an eclipse
Calculated the length of a solar year
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During the Golden Age, great works of art were often connected to _____________.
Hinduism
Buddhism
nature and animals
government and rulers