Ancient Indian History Quiz

Gupta Kingship was hereditary. The throne did not always go to the eldest son. The Guptas made munificent gifts to the brahmanas, who expressed their gratitude by comparing the king to different gods. King was looked upon as Vishnu, the protector and preserver.

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.

The caste system in ancient India was used to establish separate classes of inhabitants based upon their social positions and employment functions in the community.

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

Ellora temples were built during the Rashtrakuta dynasty, which constructed part of the Hindu and Buddhist caves, and the Yadava dynasty, which constructed a number of the Jain caves.

He was called Siddhartha Gautama in his childhood. His father was King Suddhodana, leader of the Shakya Clan in what was the growing state of Kosala, and his mother was queen Maya.

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.

The Indus valley civilisation is also called the Harappan culture. The civilization was first identified in 1921 at Harappa in the Punjab region and then in 1922 at Mohenjo-daro (Mohenjodaro), near the Indus River in the Sindh (Sind) region. Both sites are in present-day Pakistan, in Punjab and Sindh provinces, respectively.

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.