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This set of Early Societies in India Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Early Societies In India Set 7
Q1 | ‘Vanik’ is the ………….. word for the traders in ancient India.
- hindi
- malayalam
- urudu
- sanskrit
Q2 | The French Revolution was in the year of ..................
- 1789
- 1798
- 1879
- 1898
Q3 | The original belief that one who is sick cannot cure others came to beradically transformed by the bodhisattva ideal, which appeared in the later phase of Buddhism known as …………….
- mahayana buddhism
- hinayana buddhism
- swedambaras
- digambaras
Q4 | Magadha has risen to authority during the reigns of Bimbisara (544 to491 BC) and his son Ajatashatru (491 to 460 BC) of ……. Dynasty.
- shishunaga
- nanda
- mauryan
- gupta
Q5 | Bimbisara ruled his domain from the city of Rajagriha, now known asRajgir, near Gaya in the state of ………………...
- bihar
- bengal
- assam
- orissa
Q6 | ……………..was the last powerful king of Shishunaga Dynasty whoestablished a fort at Pataliputra now known as Patna.
- ajatashatru
- dharmakirti
- asoka
- bindusara
Q7 | Udayan was the last noticeable but not so powerful king of ………..
- magadha
- kasi
- kosala
- vrjji
Q8 | The Nandas were the successors of the ……………...
- sisunagas
- nanda
- pala
- sena
Q9 | The founder of the …………. dynasty was Mahapadma Nanda.
- pala
- sisunagas
- mauryan
- nanda
Q10 | Mahapadma Nanda was described as the son of the last ……… kingMahanandin by a sudra woman.
- sisunaga
- nanda
- gupta
- sena
Q11 | The last of ruler of the Nanda dynasty was ………….., a contemporaryof Alexander.
- chandragupta maurya
- mahapadma nanda
- dhana nanda
- mortimer wheeler
Q12 | ……… who overthrew the Nanda dynasty with the help of a craftyBrahmin statesman, Kautilya.
- chandragupta maurya
- asoka
- aswaghosha
- nagarjuna
Q13 | Maurya Dynasty was ruled into the state of Magadha from the capitalcity at …………...
- nalanda
- pataliputra
- vidramasila
- kapilavastu
Q14 | The Mauryan dynasty had disintegrated in ………… by PushyamitraSunga.
- 175 bc
- 185 bc
- 189 bc
- 195 bc
Q15 | ……… was a friend, guide and philosopher to Chandra Gupta Maurya.
- kautilya
- athula
- nagarjuna
- vasubandhu
Q16 | ‘Indica’ is the accounts on India prepared by …………….
- chandragupta maurya
- megasthenese
- seleucus nikethor
- kautilya
Q17 | Megasthenese stayed at the …………… court and noted down hisreflections on the then Indian society.
- mauryan
- gupta
- vijayanagara
- bhamini
Q18 | The Brahmi script which was a riddle for a long time was decipheredby ……………… in 1837.
- james princep
- mortimer wheeler
- john marshal
- w.c.banerji
Q19 | James Princep was a civil servant of the English East India Companyin ………….. and the secretary of the Asiatic society.
- bengal
- bihar
- orissa
- ahmmedabad
Q20 | Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Mauryan dynasty overthrewthe last Nanda king and occupied his capital …………. in 321 B.C.
- pataliputra
- kasi
- kosala
- vrjji
Q21 | The first attempt of Chandragupta towards political integration washis war with ………….., the ruler of the area, west of the Indus.
- nagarjuna
- aswaghosha
- scleucus nikator
- vasubandhu
Q22 | ………………, the son and successor of Chandragupta is said to havesubjugated kings and Nobles of about 16 cities and became the master of the territory which lay between Eastern and Western sea.
- dharmakirti
- chandra gupta maurya
- bindusara
- asoka
Q23 | Since ………….. is credited to have conquered Kalinga only, extensionof the Mauryan Empire beyond river Tungabadra is done by his predecessors.
- chandra gupta maurya
- bindusara
- asoka
- samudra gupta
Q24 | The Mauryan control of Deccan and Mysore Plateau must have beenmade a reality by …………...
- bindusara
- aswaghosha
- nagarjuna
- vasubandhu
Q25 | The process of political integration was completed with the conquest ofKalinga by …………. and thus the Mauryan empire was formed.
- dharmakirti
- asoka
- bindusara
- kumara gupta