Ancient Indian History MCQs

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During the Gupta period an officer called ustapala maintained records of all land transactions in the district whereas the village accountant preserved records of land in the village.

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Under the rule of Ishanavarmana, the Maukhari kingdom stretched to Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, and Gauda. Ishanavarmana had to face prolonged struggle with the later Guptas. Ishanavarman suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Kumaragupta.

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The period from 600 A.D. to 1000 A.D. was the golden era of religious architecture. The Hindu monarchs competed with one another in the magnificence and number of their temples. At Khajuraho, Jain and Brahmanical (Saiva and Vaishnava) temples were erected in the typical Aryavarta style.

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The magnificent rock-cut Kailashnatha Temple at Ellora which is situated near present-day Aurangabad, Maharastra was built during the reign of Rashtrakuta king Krishna I. The temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva.

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Rajaraja I destroyed the chera navy at Trivandrum, attacked Quilon, and captured Madurai. He also captured the northern Sri Lanka and named it Mummadichola mandalam. Rajaraja I also conquered the Maldives islands.

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People of Indus Valley Civilization knew and used wheat, barley as well as cotton but proof of pulses is not documented. The chief food crops included wheat, barley, sesame, mustard, peas, etc. The evidence for rice has come from Lothal and Rangpur in the form of husks embedded in pottery. Cotton was another important crop. Apart from cereals, fish and animal meat also formed a part of the Harappan diet.

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Kumhrar is located in Patna. It is the name of an area of Patna where remains of the ancient city of Pataliputra have been found. The excavation started in 1913 by the Archaeological survey of India.

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A chaitya is a Buddhist shrine or prayer hall with a stupa at one end that were made for large gathering of devotees. They were rectangular halls with finely polished interior walls, well-proportioned pillars with capitals, semi-circular roof. The pillars had three parts: prop, base buried in ground and shaft. Chaityas of Karle, Nasik, Ajanta, Junnar, etc, are famous.

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Although these seals and samples of Indus writing have been floating around the scholastic world for close to 70 years, little progress has been made on deciphering this elegant script. The Indus script is an un-deciphered script.

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The first important ruler to emerge from the Chola dynasty was Rajaraja Chola I. During his reign, the Cholas expanded beyond South Indiawith their domains stretching from Sri Lanka in the south to Kalinga in the north. Raja Raja Chola also launched several naval campaigns that resulted in the capture of the Malabar Coast as well as the Maldives and Sri Lanka.