This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Indian History > Ancient > Ancient Indian History – Quiz 209 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Ancient Indian History Quiz 209 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Deccan Plateau is a ..... that covers ..... of India A) Landform; two-thirds. B) Landform; half. C) Mountain Range; one-third. D) Mountain Range; two-thirds. E) Landform; one-third. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Landform; two-thirds. 2. Buddhism appealed to a wider of people because A) Buddhists believed in many gods. B) Buddha traveled to many places. C) Buddhism treated all people equally. D) Buddhist poetry was so good. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buddhism treated all people equally. 3. A system of assigning people to groups based on their birth within a society. This means a person is born into a particular group, and this group determines who the person can marry, what job the person can take, and what rank the person holds in society. A) Caste System. B) Creation System. C) Curious System. D) Calumnious System. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caste System. 4. What where the people that weren't even connected to the caste system? A) Sudra's. B) Untouchables. C) Brahmin. D) Vaisya:. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Untouchables. 5. Believed by many historians to be the greatest king of the Mauryan Dynasty A) Chandragupta Maurya. B) Siddhartha Gyatma. C) Asoka. D) Alexander the Great. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asoka. 6. For centuries, contact between India and other ancient civilizations was limited by ..... A) The caste system. B) Fear of foreigners. C) The Great Wall. D) The Himalayas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Himalayas. 7. What is the name for the "Universal Soul" in Hinduism? A) Shiva. B) Vishnu. C) Brahman. D) Ganesha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brahman. 8. What is the Buddhist concept of achieving a state of perfect peace? A) Reincarnation. B) Karma. C) Nirvana. D) Eight-fold Path. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nirvana. 9. The lowest ....., or social grouping based on skill, identified in the Vedas was the ..... A) Otherwise; Brahmins. B) Caste; Kshatriyas. C) Varna; beautiful. D) Caste; Vaishyasya. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Varna; beautiful. 10. The belief that after death, one is reborn into a new life. A) Meditation. B) Vedas. C) Zoroastrianism. D) Reincarnation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reincarnation. 11. What describes how Krishna gives advice to Arjuna as he prepares to go to battle. A) The Bhagavad Gita. B) The Four Vedas. C) Ramayana. D) Krishna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Bhagavad Gita. 12. Which religion believes in an afterlife? A) HInduism. B) Buddhism. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neither. 13. Identify the religion based on the descriptor:founded by Siddhartha Gautama A) Buddhism. B) Hinduism. C) Both Buddhism and Hinduism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Buddhism. 14. Ancient Indian custom of sacrifice where a widow would burn herself to death during the funeral of her husband. A) Crow. B) Pariahs. C) Suttee. D) Sudras. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suttee. 15. Which characteristics contributes to South Asia being considered a subcontinent? A) It is geographically isolated from the rest of Asia by tall mountains. B) It has a different weather pattern from the rest of the region. C) It is separated from eastern Asia by the Arabian Sea. D) It developed civilizations that had no contact with outside peoples. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is geographically isolated from the rest of Asia by tall mountains. 16. In Hinduism, the idea of being nonviolent. A) Citadel. B) Reincarnation. C) Whisper. D) Convert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Whisper. 17. Indian mathematicians were able to make great advances in the 3rd and 2nd century BCE, in part because of their development A) Invention of addition. B) Use of the calculator. C) Developing the concept of zero. D) The abacus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Developing the concept of zero. 18. What was a major innovation by the Ancient Indians used in their cities? A) Sewage Systems. B) Electrical Wires. C) Lightbulbs. D) Stone Tools. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sewage Systems. 19. The location of ancient civilization in present day India and Pakistan. A) Indus River Valley. B) Ganges River. C) Tigris. D) Euphrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indus River Valley. 20. Which technological aspect do we see shared by Mesopotamians and Harappans? A) Code of ethics written on stele. B) Advanced shipbuilding and sailing. C) Hieroglyphics writing. D) Mud bricks for walling and construction. 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