This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 60 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 60 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A Mauryan emperor who converted to Buddhism A) Asoka. B) Chandra Gupta. C) Chandragupta Maurya. D) O-T-Z-I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asoka. 2. What word best describes the philosophy or way of thinking of legalism? A) Respect. B) Strict. C) Welcoming. D) Easy going. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strict. 3. True or False? Ancient India was the first civilization to use calculus? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. What was a rajah? A) Untouchables. B) Tribal or village leader. C) Sun god. D) Karma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tribal or village leader. 5. Ancient India was the first place to perform this surgery A) Brain Surgery. B) Heart Surgery. C) Emergency surgery. D) Plastic Surgery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plastic Surgery. 6. Who is the grandson of Chandragupta who converted to Buddhism? A) Samudragupta. B) Ashoka. C) Chandra Gupta I. D) Siddhartha. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ashoka. 7. Himalayas Indian Ocean Hindu Kush The box above is referring to the ..... of India A) Education. B) Religion. C) Geography. D) Economy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geography. 8. What type of jobs did the untouchables have to do? A) Clean the kitchen, mop the floors, and cook. B) Clean the bathrooms, skin animals, and take care of dead people. C) Work in shops, make thread, and sew. D) Lead church services and teach people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clean the bathrooms, skin animals, and take care of dead people. 9. A large landmass that is set apart from the rest of the continent A) Citadel. B) Silt. C) Monsoon. D) Subcontinent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subcontinent. 10. People could easily move between social classes in the ancient Indian caste system. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. Based on the teaching of a man named Mahavira A) Caste System. B) Karma. C) Reincarnation. D) Jainism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jainism. 12. Read the phrase and determine which religion it is associated with:Believe in ahimsa, which means that a person should not harm any living creature. A) Buddhism. B) Jainism. C) Hinduism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jainism. 13. Monsoons are seasonal in India, so that means monsoons occur how? A) In a regular pattern. B) Rarely to never. C) All day, every day. D) Sometimes they happen, sometimes they don't. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a regular pattern. 14. The subcontinent affected civilization in ancient India because ..... A) It was next to the Indian Ocean and provided a freshwater source. B) It led to overcrowding in early cities. C) It provided natural barriers. D) It resulted in freezing cold temperatures. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It provided natural barriers. 15. The Aryan class system defined people by occupation and status. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. A subcontinent is a large piece of land that is smaller than a continent A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. The movement of a group of Indo-European peoples in about 1500 B.C.E. to the area now known as India. A) Aryan Migration. B) Indian Subcontinent. C) It's also a strange place. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aryan Migration. 18. What is a stupa? A) A Buddhist shrine in the shape of a dome or mound. B) A type of postal system that people used to communicate. C) A leader that holds high power. D) An empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Buddhist shrine in the shape of a dome or mound. 19. What are Hindu-Arabic numerals? A) The Hindu-Arabic numeral system or Indo-Arabic numeral system is a positional decimal numeral system, and is the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world. B) Hindu-Arabic numerals are an alphabet created in Ancient India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Hindu-Arabic numeral system or Indo-Arabic numeral system is a positional decimal numeral system, and is the most common system for the symbolic representation of numbers in the world. 20. Outside of the system A) Vaisya:. B) Sudras. C) Kshatriyas. D) Untouchables. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Untouchables. 21. What is the name of people who migrated to the Northern part of India in 1500 B.C. A) Egyptians. B) Aryans. C) Babylonians. D) Persians. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aryans. 22. A force that decides the forms that people will be born into in their next life is called A) Varna. B) Reincarnation. C) Karma. D) Dharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Karma. 23. We can infer that the terra-cotta army was built to ..... A) Show how powerful the emperor was. B) To protect his privacy. C) To use up all the terra-cotta resources. D) To guard his body during the afterlife. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To guard his body during the afterlife. 24. Vocabulary:People who tried to follow the Buddha's teachings exactly as they had been stated A) Bhagavad. B) Theravada. C) Mahayana. D) Ramayana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theravada. 25. Which of the following emperors was promoted Hinduism by building temples? A) Chandragupta Maurya. B) Asoka. C) Chandra Gupta. D) Chandra Gupta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chandra Gupta. 26. Used to support the caste system A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinduism. 27. What makes the hierarchy of India so unique? A) It has rich people and poor people. B) Everyone in society is divided by wealth. C) Whatever level you are born in cannot ever change until death. D) India's society is higher than Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Whatever level you are born in cannot ever change until death. 28. What are Vedas? How many are there? A) The oldest texts of Hinduism; 4. B) The oldest texts of Hinduism; 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The oldest texts of Hinduism; 4. 29. Seasonal winds from the Indian Ocean and Himalayas that influences India's climate. A) Hurricane winds. B) Monsoon winds. C) Angry winds. D) Tornado winds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monsoon winds. 30. Dharma is the Sanskrit term meaning 'law' or 'teaching'. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 31. Which religion believes in a universal spirit called Brahman? A) Jainism. B) Hinduism. C) Islam. D) Buddhism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinduism. 32. The rebirth of a soul in a different body A) Karma. B) Salvation. C) Reincarnation. D) Dharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reincarnation. 33. The Indus and Ganges Rivers are the two most important rivers in India. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 34. The "Jain Hand" is an iconic description of which mudra? A) Shiva Mudra. B) Khechri coin. C) Vishnu Mudra. D) Abhaya Mudra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abhaya Mudra. 35. What Chinese Dynasty created the Mandate of Heaven? A) Shang Dynasty. B) Zhou Dynasty. C) Qin Dynasty. D) Xia Dynasty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zhou Dynasty. 36. The first Indian empire in South Asia A) Babylon Empire. B) Sumerian Empire. C) Gupta Empire. D) Mauryan Empire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mauryan Empire. 37. The subcontinent of India is part of this continent. A) Asia. B) Europe. C) Africa. D) South America. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asia. 38. The process of life, death, and rebirth A) Nirvana. B) Reincarnation. C) Karma. D) Dharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reincarnation. 39. What continent is India located in? A) North America. B) Europe. C) Africa. D) Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asia. 40. How did the Gupta Empire end? A) Disease from China spread throughout the country. B) Monsoon winds failed to bring needed rain to the subcontinent. C) Farmers rebelled in protest of the caste system. D) Hun armies invaded the country. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hun armies invaded the country. 41. Buddhists believe that the cause of human suffering is ..... A) The Caste System. B) Dharma. C) Selfish desires. D) Nirvana. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Selfish desires. 42. A fortified part of Mohenjo-Daro where people would go in case of an attack A) The granary. B) The assembly hall. C) The acropolis. D) The citadel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The citadel. 43. The land surrounding the Indus River in Pakistan. A) Indo-Ganges Plain. B) Mississippi. C) Indus River valley. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indus River valley. 44. What is the percentage of Indians that are Hindu in India? A) 60%. B) 80%. C) 90%. D) 70%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 80%. 45. People of the Indus river valley A) Egyptians. B) Mesopotamians. C) Shang. D) Harappans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harappans. 46. Ancient Hindu scriptures written in Sanskrit A) The 4 Noble Truths. B) Book of the Deak. C) Torah. D) Vedas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vedas. 47. Which ruler is credited with the founding of the Persian Empire? A) Alexander the Great. B) Ramses the II. C) Cyrus the Great. D) Darius I. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cyrus the Great. 48. Which river lies in the northwest of India? A) The Indus. B) The Tapi. C) The Mahanadi. D) The Ganges. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Indus. 49. What were granaries used for by the people of the Indus Valley? A) As temples. B) Defend their villages. C) Store surplus food. D) Weave cloth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Store surplus food. 50. Which of the following determined a person's job, social group, and marriage in early India? A) Caste system. B) British colonial rule. C) Whisper. D) The Eightfold Path. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caste system. 51. Spirits return to earth many times in different forms trying to become one with Brahman is A) Reincarnation. B) Caste System. C) Sudra. D) Dharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reincarnation. 52. The place where a huge dockyard has been discovered A) Mumbai. B) Coimbatore. C) Lothal. D) Tiruchirappalli. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lothal. 53. Siddhartha Guatama was born a rich prince, but left the palace to live in poverty. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 54. India's social class system A) Caste system. B) Pyramid system. C) Theocracy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caste system. 55. In reincarnation people are reborn into someone new but still have the same A) Life. B) Soul. C) Caste. D) Body. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soul. 56. A large ancient city of the Indus civilization, created in present-day Pakistan A) Subcontinent. B) Ganges River. C) Harappa. D) Himalaya Mountains. E) It's also Joe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harappa. 57. What goal was Buddhism asking people to attain? A) Make $ 1 million dollar in ones lifetime. B) Reaching enlightenment. C) Make several sacrifices. D) Making a pilgrimage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reaching enlightenment. 58. What is the name of the holy book for Buddhism? A) Siddhartha Gyatam. B) Bible. C) The Three Baskets of Wisdom. D) Quran. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Three Baskets of Wisdom. 59. The trade winds that determined when/what farming could occur in Ancient India were ..... A) Monsoons. B) Tsunamis. C) Hurricanes. D) The seasonal equinox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monsoons. 60. What is another name of Gandhara Grave culture? A) Swat culture. B) Malwa culture. C) Jorewe culture. D) Ahar culture. 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