Ancient Indian History Quiz

Chandra Gupta I, king of India (reigned 320 to 330 CE) and founder of the Gupta empire. He was the grandson of Sri Gupta, the first known ruler of the Gupta line.

A unique style of Buddhist sculpture called Gandhara art developed in ancient times in the Gandhara region of the Indian subcontinent. The Gandhara School of art had developed in the first century AD during the reign of Kushana emperor Kanishka.

Pulakeshin II was the most famous ruler of the Chalukya dynasty of Vatapi. During his reign, the Chalukya kingdom expanded to cover most of the Deccan region in peninsular India.

Worship of stones, trees and animals is called nature worship. The Indus Valley people worshipped, Pasupati, stones, trees, animals and snakes.

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

The Vedas are known as 'Shruti' because earlier the people used to remember the Vedas by listening only i.e. they used to hear it through their ears. The 'Shruti' is a synonym word for 'hearing'.

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

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 most accurate description of The Mauryan monarchy under Ashoka was Enlightened despotism. The enlightened despots tried to institute enlightenment reforms but kept all of the political power without creating a constitution.

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.