Module5 ||Ancient History

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1.The three-age system, divided into stone, bronze and iron from the collection of Copenhagen museum was coined by?

(a) Thomson

(b)  Lubbock

(c) Taylor

(d)  Childe

2.According to the excavated evidence, the domestication of animal began in?

(a) Lower Palaeolithic period

(b)  Middle Palaeolithic period

(c)  Upper Palaeolithic period

(d)  Mesolithic period

3.The earliest evidence of agriculture in Indian subcontinent comes from?

(a)  Koldihwa

(b)  Lahuradeva

(c)  Mehrgarh

(d)  Tokwa

4. Name the site which has revealed the earliest evidence of settled life?

(a) Dholavira

(b) Kile Gul Mohammad

(c) Kalibangan

(d) Mehrgarh

5.What metals were known to the people of Indus valley civilisation?

(a) Copper, bronze, silver, gold but not iron

(b) Copper, silver, iron but not bronze

(c) Copper, gold, iron but not silver

(d) Copper, silver, iron but not gold

6.Which of the following Indus Valley sites is not a present in India?

(a) Chanhudaro

(b) Farmana

(c) Khirasara

(d) Loteshwar

7.In the Indus Valley Civilization, Great Bath was found at which place?

(a)Mohenjodaro

(b)Harappa

(c)Rakhi Garhi

(d)Ropar

8.The achievements of which ruler was recorded in Nasik Inscription?

(a) Ashoka

(b) Bindusara

(c) Devabhumi

(d) Gautamiputra Satkarni

9.Who overthrew Saka rulers from India?

(a) Gautami putra Satakarni

(b) Kanishka

(c) Rudraraman

(d) Demetrius

10.Which of the following kings wore the title of "Avanisimha"?

(a)Simhavarman

(b)Simhavishnu

(c)Mahendravarman I

(d)Shivaskandavarman

11.Which among the following is not one of the realms of "being" as stated by Buddhism?

(a)Prani

(b)Preta

(c)Asura

(d)Bodhisattva

12. Who wrote the famous book 'Brihat Katha'?

(a)Gunadhya

(b)Sarva Varman

(c)Panini

(d)Radhagupt

13.The first Indian Mathematician who treated Mathematics as a different discipline?

(a)Aryabhatta

(b)Varahmihira

(c)Baudhayan

(d)Ramanujan

14.Which of the following committee took care of foreigners in the Mauryan administration?

(a)Foreigners

(b)Foreign Affairs

(c)Vital Statistics

(d)Home Affairs

15. The term 'visit' refers to which of the following?

(a)Wage Labour

(b)Forced Labour

(c)Slave Labour

(d)None of them

16. Which of the following were the first to issue gold coins?

(a)Kushans

(b)Shakas

(c)Parthians

(d)Indo-Greeks

17.Where did Buddha deliver his first Sermon?

(a)Sarnath

(b)Gaya

(c)Lumbini

(d)Kushinagar

18.Who is the main expounder of materialistic philosophy?

(a)Charvaka

(b)Ajivikas

(c)Jainism

(d)Buddhism

19.Large territorial states in North India during the sixth century BCE were known as?

(a)Janapadas

(b)Jana

(c)Mahajanapadas

(d)None of them

20.Dhamma Mahamattas were mentioned in which of the following rock edicts?

(a)Fifth Edict

(b)Third Edict

(c)Seventh Edict

(d)Sixth Edict

Answer:

1.(a)  2.(d)  3.(b)  4.(d)  5.(a)  6.(a)  7.(a)  8.(d)  9.(a)  10.(b)

11.(a)  12.(a)  13.(a)  14.(a)  15.(b)  16.(d) 17.(a) 18.(a)  19.(c)  20.(a)  

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