This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 132 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 132 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Vedas/Vedic Texts A) Buddhism. B) Hinduism. C) Sikhism. D) Confucianism. E) T(D)aoism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinduism. 2. What caste were farm workers, servants, and other unskilled workers in? A) Kshatriyas. B) Untouchables. C) Sudras. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sudras. 3. Which inventions under the Gupta empire had a lasting influence? A) The calendar, the wheel, and the modern alphabet. B) Dyed cloth, the wheelbarrow, and the compass. C) Printed cloth, the decimal point, and the system of numbers we use today. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Printed cloth, the decimal point, and the system of numbers we use today. 4. Which of the following is NOT part of the Eightfold Path? A) Meditation. B) Speech. C) Concentration. D) Money. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Money. 5. Which caste is the lowest caste? A) Brahmin. B) Untouchables. C) Sudras. D) Vaishyasya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Untouchables. 6. True or False:Karma is belief that good and evil done in past life determines the nature of that person's life A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. The first Indian civilization started A) On the Ganges River. B) On the Nile River. C) In the Himalaya Mountains. D) On the Indus River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On the Indus River. 8. What was the first Indus River Valley city to be discovered? A) Harappa. B) It's also Joe. C) Thebes. D) Uruk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harappa. 9. Site of one of the great cities of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium B.C. It was located on the northwest frontier of the zone of cultivation, and may have been a center for the acquisition of raw materials. A) Sutras. B) Indus. C) Harappa. D) Sumeria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harappa. 10. What was the main source of wealth for the Mauryan Empire during the era of the Silk Route? A) Gold. B) Spices. C) Gemstones. D) Silk. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Silk. 11. In the Indian caste system, who are the Kshatriyas? A) Priest. B) Ruler/warriors. C) Farmers/craftspeople/traders. D) Laborer/non-Aryan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ruler/warriors. 12. Warriors and rulers of the Hindu society A) Brahmin. B) Sanskrit. C) Vaishya. D) Kshatriya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kshatriya. 13. Decide whether the phrases listed describe the Indus River, Ganges River, or Both.Provides water for farmlands.Starts in the Himalayan Mountains. A) Indus River. B) Ganges River. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 14. How many Vedas are there? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 15. Believe people strive to reach Nirvana A) Hinduism. B) Buddhism. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhism. 16. Which of the following is the force in the Indian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism that decides the form a person will take in his next life, based on how he has acted in past lives? A) Brahman. B) Karma. C) Dharma. D) Nirvana. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Karma. 17. Weights and bricks with specific ratios were evidence of THIS aspect of well-planned cities A) Lapis lazuli. B) Standardization. C) Citadel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Standardization. 18. The body of water to India's east is ..... A) Arabian Sea. B) Indian Ocean. C) Bay of Bengal. D) Atlantic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bay of Bengal. 19. Ancient Indian ruler who converted to Buddhism. A) Krishna. B) Raja. C) Kshatriya. D) Asoka. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asoka. 20. Which religions have people use meditation, tell people to get rid of worldly desires, and have the goal to stop reincarnation and reach nirvana? A) Hinduism and Buddhism. B) Buddhism and Jainism. C) Hinduism and Jainism. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buddhism and Jainism. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian History QuizzesAncient Indian History Quiz 1Ancient Indian History Quiz 2Ancient Indian History Quiz 3Ancient Indian History Quiz 4Ancient Indian History Quiz 5Ancient Indian History Quiz 6Ancient Indian History Quiz 7Ancient Indian History Quiz 8Ancient Indian History Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books