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This set of Early India- State to Empire Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Early India State To Empire Set 2

Q1 | Only the lineages of Puru and Yadu are listed in detail and at greatlength in the ………………….
Q2 | The migration of various segments taken from …………. spread over alarge area of northern, western and central India.
Q3 | The lunar lineage and its distribution were incorporated substantiallyinto the area where the …………… war was fought.
Q4 | The Mahabharata war was fought between the two major segments ofthe lineage on the plains of ……………. and most of the segments were destroyed in the battle.
Q5 | The event of the …………. focuses on the last part of the Puru lineage.
Q6 | The Puru lineage seems to have three distinct stages.The first stages isfrom Puru to ………….
Q7 | By now relations between Kurus and Panchalas were established through 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.
Q8 | Vasu’s five sons established new kingdoms- Brihadratha at …………., Kusa at Vatsa and the other three in Chedi, Karusa and Matsya.
Q9 | 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.
Q10 | …………………, Director-General of the Archaeological Department ofthe Government of India.
Q11 | 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 …………….
Q12 | Sir John Marshall has assigned …………… culture to the period 3150- 2750 B.C.
Q13 | 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.
Q14 | ………….. were the indivisible factors of the Harappan Culture.
Q15 | The ………….. city excavated of Indus civilization was Harappa.
Q16 | The city of Harappa had existed on the banks of the river …………. inwestern Punjab.
Q17 | The city of ……………. was excavated by archaeologists like DayaramSahni, M.S.Vats and Mortimer Wheeler from the early 1920’s onwards.
Q18 | The city of Harappa had existed on a trade route stretching fromJammu to Central Asia through …………….
Q19 | ……………. was the large city of the Harappan civilization.
Q20 | ………….. is located in the Larkana district of Sind on the banks of theriver Indus.
Q21 | The excavations at …………… was first started in 1922 by Sir JohnMarshall with R.D. Banerji.
Q22 | Kalibangan in …………… along the dried up bed of the river Ghaggeris another important Harappan city.
Q23 | Kalibangan site was excavated by …………… in the 1960’s which havethe evidences of pre-Harappan and Harappan habitations.
Q24 | Lothal in ………….. is another important city excavated.
Q25 | ………….. was in charge of the excavations of the Harappan sites inGujarat.