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This set of Early Societies in India Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Early Societies In India Set 2

Q1 | The migration of various segments taken from …………. spread over alarge area of northern, western and central India.
  • ila
  • ikshaku
  • yadu
  • punjab
Q2 | The lunar lineage and its distribution were incorporated substantiallyinto the area where the …………… war was fought.
  • afghanistan
  • kurukshetra
  • mahabharata
  • punjab
Q3 | The event of the …………. focuses on the last part of the Puru lineage.
  • mahabharata
  • kurukshetra
  • afghanistan
  • punjab
Q4 | The Puru lineage seems to have three distinct stages.The first stages isfrom Puru to ………….
  • bharata
  • ikshaku
  • ila
  • rama
Q5 | By now relations between Kurus and Panchalas were establishedthrough lineage connections.Soon after, one of the Kuru kings, Vasu branched off and occupied Chedi on the southern fringe of Yamuna and Magadha in …………, both earlier occupied by Yadavas.
  • lothal
  • maghada
  • meerut
  • bihar
Q6 | Vasu’s five sons established new kingdoms- Brihadratha at ………….,Kusa at Vatsa and the other three in Chedi, Karusa and Matsya.
  • meerut
  • maghada
  • lothal
  • kalinga
Q7 | A glorious civilization flourished in the valley of the river Indus and itsneighbouring regions prior to the rise of the Chalcolithic Age.This civilization known as the …………. culture.
  • harappan
  • maghadan
  • vedic
  • later vedic
Q8 | …………………, Director-General of the Archaeological Department ofthe Government of India.
  • sir john marshal
  • mortimer wheeler
  • dayaram sahni
  • r.d. banerji
Q9 | Harappan Culture spread over various parts of Northern and CentralIndia like Rupar and Bara in the east Punjab, Alamgirpur near Meerut in U.P. and Ragpur and Lothal in …………….
  • gujarat
  • delhi
  • haryana
  • assam
Q10 | Sir John Marshall has assigned …………… culture to the period 3150-2750 B.C.
  • mauryan
  • vedic
  • sumarian
  • harappan
Q11 | But in recent years, archaeologists have made use of scientific testslike carbon test and fixed the period of ……………. civilization from 2300 to 1750 B.C.
  • harappan
  • vedic
  • chinese
  • buddhist
Q12 | ………….. were the indivisible factors of the Harappan Culture.
  • rivers
  • villages
  • mountains
  • planned cities
Q13 | The ………….. city excavated of Indus civilization was Harappa.
  • first
  • second
  • third
  • fourth
Q14 | The city of Harappa had existed on the banks of the river …………. inwestern Punjab.
  • ravi
  • narmada
  • bharathapuzha
  • periyar
Q15 | The city of ……………. was excavated by archaeologists like DayaramSahni, M.S.Vats and Mortimer Wheeler from the early 1920’s onwards.
  • harappa
  • madras
  • bombay
  • bengal
Q16 | The city of Harappa had existed on a trade route stretching fromJammu to Central Asia through …………….
  • afghanistan
  • lothal
  • punjab
  • nepal
Q17 | ……………. was the large city of the Harappan civilization.
  • mohenjodaro
  • lothal
  • kalibangan
  • rupar
Q18 | ………….. is located in the Larkana district of Sind on the banks of theriver Indus.
  • mohenjodaro
  • lothal
  • kalibangan
  • rupar
Q19 | The excavations at …………… was first started in 1922 by Sir JohnMarshall with R.D. Banerji.
  • kalibangan
  • lothal
  • mohenjodaro
  • banwali
Q20 | Kalibangan in …………… along the dried up bed of the river Ghaggeris another important Harappan city.
  • rajasthan
  • u.p
  • delhi
  • bomby
Q21 | Kalibangan site was excavated by …………… in the 1960’s which havethe evidences of pre-Harappan and Harappan habitations.
  • b.k.thapar
  • mortimer wheeler
  • dayaram sahni
  • s.r. rao
Q22 | Lothal in ………….. is another important city excavated.
  • gujarat
  • rajasthan
  • delhi
  • haryana
Q23 | ………….. was in charge of the excavations of the Harappan sites inGujarat.
  • s.r.rao
  • mortimer wheeler
  • dayaram sahni
  • r.d. banerji
Q24 | The ……………… culture was essentially an urban culture.
  • vedic
  • harappan
  • buddhist
  • jain
Q25 | The Harappans conducted trade both within the northern and western area of the sub continent and with Persian Gulf and ……………..regions.
  • chinese
  • rajasthan
  • sumeria
  • mesopotamian