Ancient Indian History MCQs

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The Later Chalukyan King Somesvara I came to the throne in 1042 AD. He gave up Manyakheta as his capital and established Kalyanpura of Kalyana as his new capital. His struggle with the Chola empire continued.

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Rajadhiraja who was the son and the successor of Emperor Rajendra Chola I ruled the Chola kingdom from 1044 A.D. to 1052 A.D. He sacked and plundered Chalukyan cities such as Kalyani and planted a Jaystambha at Yadgir.

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During the Chola period the general assembly of the local residents of non brahmadeya villages or the  vellanvagai villages  was referred to as Ur. It used to discuss matters without any formal rule or procedure.

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Tylos was the name used by the ancient Greeks to refer to Bahrain as the centre of pearl trading. It was widely used when Nearchus, the general of Alexander the Great, visited the place to explore its riches and trade. Cotton cultivation and trade was famous in Tylos.

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Samudragupta was the second king of Gupta Empire. He succeeded his father Chandragupta I around 335 or 350 CE, and ruled until 375 CE. Vishnugupta was one of the lesser known kings of the Gupta Dynasty. He is generally considered to be the last recognized king of the Gupta Empire. His reign lasted 10 years, from 540 to 550 CE. Ashoka was emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE. Bimbisara was a king of the Magadha empire and belonged to Haryanaka dynasty.

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The first sermon Buddha gave to the five monks was called the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. It is also called the Setting in Motion of the Wheel of Dharma, the Buddha first spelt out the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. It was given on the full-moon day of Asalha Puja. Buddha subsequently also spent his first rainy season at Sarnath at the Mulagandhakuti. In His First Sermon, the Buddha said, “I teach one thing and one thing only: suffering and the end of suffering,” which is the ultimate goal of Buddhism.

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Around the time when Jainism and Buddhism were becoming popular, brahmins developed the system of ashramas. Four ashramas that were recognised built then are: brahmacharya, grihastha, vanaprastha and samnyasa. The system of ashramas allowed men to spend some part of their lives in meditation.

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In the year 305 BC, Seleucus-I Nicator went to India and apparently occupied territory as far as the Indus, and eventually waged war with the Mauryan Emperor Chandragupta Maurya. His Indian campaign was, however, a failure. Seleucus ceded a considerable amount of territory to Chandragupta in exchange for 500 war elephants, which were to play a key role in the forthcoming battles.

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Mahapadma Nanda, who was quoted as the ‘destroyer of all the Kshatriyas’ founded the Nanda dynasty. At its greatest extent, the empire ruled by the Nanda Dynasty extended from Bengal in the east, to the Punjab region in the west and as far south as the Vindhya Range. The Nanda Empire was later conquered by Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire.

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As per Radiation Theory, modern humans evolved from which species of Homo?
The Radiation Theory holds that modern humans evolved from Homo erectus, recently, in Africa, and then migrated out to populate the rest of the Earth. This theory is supported by genetic evidence showing that human DNA from all global populations is nearly identical, implying a recent and common point of origin. According to the theory, various human groups then radiated out of Africa along different routes to inhabit the other continents.