Ancient Indian History Quiz

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.

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.

The excavated site of Lothal is the only port-town of the Indus Valley Civilisation. It is the massive dockyard which has helped make this place so important to international archaeology. It is speculated that Lothal engineers studied tidal movements, and their effects on brick-built structures since the walls are of kiln-burnt bricks.

Chalukya ruler Pulkesin II checked Harshavardhana's expedition in South India. According to its Ahole inscription, Pulkesin II had not let Harshavardhan come across the Narmada river.

Buddha Preaching the First Sermon at Sarnath 11th century. After attaining enlightenment at Bodh Gaya the Buddha went to Sarnath, and it was here that he preached his first discourse in the deer park to set in motion the 'Wheel of the Dharma'.

The Indo-Aryan or Vedic period is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas, was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent.

Kanishka (flourished 1st-century CE) was the greatest king of the Kushan Dynasty. Nagarjuna (Born 150 CE, Buddhist thinker and philosopher); Asvagosha (Born 80 CE, Buddhist philosopher) and Vasumitra (Reign: 131–124 BCE, Fourth ruler of the Shunga Empire) were contemporaries of Kanishka.

The Kalinga war was fought between Ashka and the state of Kalinga 261 BC. The massive bloodshed filled Ashoka with remorse and he adopted Buddhism under the Buddhist monk Upagupta and abandoned the policy of physical conquest and adopted the policy of cultural conquest.

The words Satyameva Jayate from Mundaka Upanishad, meaning 'Truth Alone Triumphs', are inscribed below the abacus in Devanagari script.

The paintings in the Ajanta caves predominantly narrate the Jataka tales. These are Buddhist legends describing the previous births of the Buddha.