Ancient Indian History MCQs

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Gangaikonda Cholapuram became the capital of the Chola dynasty in c. 1025 during the reign of Rajendra Chola I, and served as the Chola capital for around 250 years. It is a Village located near to Jayankondam, Tamil Nadu.

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The play mentions Vasumitra, the son of Agnimitra, defeating a band of Yavanas on the right bank of the river Sindhu when they tried to capture the sacrificial horse of Pushyamitra.

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Sasanka was the contemporary Bengal king during the time of Harsha of Kannauj. He created the first separate political entity in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, called the Gauda Kingdom and is a major figure in Bengali history. He reigned in 7th century AD, and some historians place his rule approximately between 590 AD and 625 AD.

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The rejection of after-life is an aphorism of the Charvakas. Charvaka also known as Lokayata, is an ancient school of Indian materialism.
Charvaka holds direct perception, empiricism, and conditional inference as proper sources of knowledge, embraces philosophical skepticism and rejects ritualism, and supernaturalism.

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British archaeologist and historian James Prinsep deciphered the edicts found in central and eastern India. The language used was Magadhi Prakrit and was written using the Brahmi script. James Prinsep was a scholar, philologist, and the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

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The Saka era started in 78 AD, while Vikram era started from 58 BC. So if we want to convert Badami rock inscription of Pulakesin I to Vikram era, it will be 465 + 78 + 58 = 601 Vikram Samvat.

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There is no definitive evidence so far of sugarcane cultivation from any Harappan settlements. However, remains of wheat, barley, pulses, peas, sesame, cotton, dates, melons and Indian mainland millets have been confirmed through storage jars, grains, husks, leaves and artistic depictions. This indicates the Indus people practiced diverse agriculture with major staple cereal crops, fiber plants and fruits suited to the landscape.

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The most standard identifiable features of houses and residences excavated at major Harappan urban centers like Mohenjo-Daro, Dholavira and Harappa itself include their brick and mortar construction often following grid patterns, rectangular design around a central courtyard, entrance passages, dedicated bathing areas, brick lined wells and covered drainage channels. Flat timber roofs supported on wooden beams were also typical across Harappan settlements. These reflect advanced architectural planning suiting the climate.

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Horse remains of Indus Valley civilization were discovered at Surkotada in Kutch district of Gujarat. Surkotada was an Indus valley site occupied between 2500 BCE and 2000 BCE. Several horse bones were found here, providing the earliest evidence of horses in South Asia. This challenged the prevailing view that horses were brought to the subcontinent by invading Aryans around 1500 BCE.

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Event that occurred before the invention of writing are considered the domain of prehistory. It is generally represented by the three stone ages. History is usually divided into pre-history, proto-history, and history.