6-3 India's First Empires Question Preview (ID: 17729)


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Buddhist shrines shaped like a dome or mound
a) stupa
b) pilgrim
c) Asoka
d) Kalidasa

One of India's best-known ancient writers
a) Asoka
b) Chandragupta Maurya
c) stupa
d) Kalidasa

used trade rounds to travel to religious shrines or sites
a) Chandragupta Maurya
b) pilgrim
c) Asoka
d) Kalidasa

considered to be the Mauryan dynasty's greatest king
a) pilgrim
b) Kalidasa
c) Asoka
d) Chandragupta Maurya

founded Inda's first empire
a) Kalidasa
b) Asoka
c) Chandragupta Maurya
d) stupa

The Mauryan dynasty set up a ______________ government which was controlled by the capital city
a) city state
b) centralized
c) theocratic
d) democratic

The Mauryan ruler _______ built new roads and hospitals for people and animals.
a) Asoka
b) Chandragupta Maurya
c) Kalidasa
d) Gupta

Five hundred years after the Mauryan dynasty failed, the ___________ dynasty created and empire that reunited much of northern India.
a) Kalidasa
b) Asoka
c) Gupta
d) Hindu

Two famous epic stories that Indians today still like to read are the Mahabharata and
a) Ramayana
b) Bhagavad Gita
c) Panchantantra
d) Theravada

The Indian invention of ________ about AD 500 had a great impact on the study of mathematics and science.
a) algebra
b) zero
c) plastic surgery
d) algorithms

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