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Ancient Indian History Quiz 61 (60 MCQs)

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1. What aspect of Hinduism beliefs supported and encouraged maintaining the caste system?
2. The caste system was a rigid social hierarchy in India that divides people into hereditary classes. The caste system dictated many aspects of an Aryan person's life except for:
3. How do statues show Buddha himself?
4. Guidelines for Buddhists to follow to live their lives
5. Which is a long story about two families struggling to control a kingdom?
6. Chieftains, of the warrior class, were also known as-
7. Which Russian ruler finally drove the Mongols out of Russia?
8. What didn't the Harapan civilization create?
9. What is the name of the seasonal wind that brings heavy rainfall to the Indian subcontinent?
10. According to Hinduism, what determines how a person is reborn?
11. Outcasts; rejected by others and excluded from normal life
12. A prince or ruler of India was called:
13. 6.G.1.1:What were the two major cities that developed in the Indus River Valley?
14. What is the life-force, creator and destroyer in Hinduism?
15. There is no longer any prejudice in India based on the caste system.
16. Which animal do Hindus have a lot of respect for?
17. 6.C&G.1.4 In the Egyptian social order, which class was a part of the bureaucracy which helped the pharaoh run the government and temples?
18. The Caste to which someone belonged was determined by
19. How did Hinduism originate?
20. Chandragupta's grandson was .....
21. Who did the Shang Dynasty lose the Mandate of Heaven to?
22. Why did many people in early India accept the Buddha's message?
23. What was the high fortified area of a city called?
24. What were houses with flat roofs built with?
25. Much of the water in the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra rivers comes from:
26. The Indus river begins in the ..... and empties into the .....
27. A large landmass that sticks out from a continent
28. The fourth varna made up of unskilled laborers and servants
29. What was a mathmatical contribuation the Indian's made during the Gupta empire?
30. Leader of the Mauryan dynasty of India who conquered most of India but eventually gave up violence and converted to Buddhism.
31. An ancient language of India. Language used in Hinduism.
32. The people group that inhabited the Indus Valley AFTER the Harappans
33. What are Buddhists in search of?
34. What is the "rebirth of a soul in a new body after death" called?
35. What is a similarity between Hinduism and Buddhism
36. What determines a person's caste?
37. Arjuna's dilemma in the Bhagavad Gita is
38. Wonder of the ancient world from Mesopotamia
39. The name of early Aryan religion.
40. Civilization that developed the written language of sanskrit.
41. True or False:India's monsoons provide rain for India's crops but can also cause severe flooding.
42. In Hinduism, the religious and moral duties of each person.
43. Where did the Harappans store food for the entire city?
44. Around 1500 B.C., what group of people traveled east into India?
45. Samsara is the endless cycle of .....
46. They prescribe a path of non-violence toward all living things.
47. A secluded religious community.
48. Which other ancient writing system is similar to the Harappans?
49. Which of the following best describes what is known about Harappan political structure?
50. The Untouchables were apart of the caste system.
51. In the caste system, the Vaishyas are the herders and the .....
52. What does it mean to be reincarnated?
53. In Ancient India, you could change the caste you were born into.
54. Which Hindu god is the destroyer of the world?
55. The good or bad actions of a soul are known as .....
56. Stone seals with writing were found. What does that teach us?
57. Kautilya was.....
58. This number system is also known as the decimal system, or base 10. In this system, each numeral is worth ten times as much as the numeral to its right, and zero is used as a placeholder when there are no units in a place. Hindu-Arabic numerals were invented in India and brought west by Arab merchants. Ayurvedic medicine is popular in many places but not commonly practiced everywhere in the world. What ancient Indian development is commonly used all over the world today?
59. A Hindu caste or social group
60. Which of the following are accomplishments of the Gupta empire?
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