Ancient Indian History Quiz

In the year 643 AD, Harsha held a great religious assembly in his capital at Kanauj. The purpose of the assembly was to highlight the teachings of Buddha. After the Kannauj Assembly was concluded, Hiuen-Tsang (Chinese Buddhist monk, traveler) was making preparations to go to his home, but Harsha invited him to attend another Assembly at Prayag.

There are archaeological evidence that there was an urban kind development during the Harappan civilization that is there where drainage systems, planned cities, massive structure and use of kiln bricks.

Organised city life was the essential feature of the Indus Valley Civilisation. These cities contained well-organized wastewater drainage systems, trash collection systems, and possibly even public granaries and baths.

Upagupta was a Buddhist monk. According to some stories in the Sanskrit text Ashokavadana, he was the spiritual teacher of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka.

Harappan people produced a large number of terracotta figurines, which were handmade. The figurines include humans, animals and birds. The terracotta figurines excavated at the Harappan site had images of oxen, buffaloes, pigs, goats, sheep and humpes bull. The cow was absent in the terracottas of the Indus civilization.

Nalanda was a renowned Buddhist University in the ancient kingdom of Magadha in India. Buddhist texts describe it as a Mahavihara, a revered Buddhist monastery.

Samudragupta (335-375 AD) of the Gupta dynasty is known as the Napoleon of India. Historian A V Smith called him so because of his great military conquests known from the 'Prayag Prashati' written by his courtier and poet Harisena, who also describes him as the hero of a hundred battles.

Most houses of the Indus Valley Civilization were built of fired and mortared brick (Pucca bricks); some incorporated sun-dried mud-brick and wooden superstructures. Sites were often raised, or built on man-made hills. This could be to combat flooding in the nearby areas.

The Gandhara School of art had developed in the first century AD along with Mathura School during the reign of Kushana emperor Kanishka.

Copper was first used by mankind over 10,000 years ago. A copper pendant discovered in what is now northern Iraq has been dated about 8700 BC For nearly five millennia copper was the only metal known to man, and thus had all the metal applications.