India's First Empires

Both the Persians and Alexander the Great invaded the Indus Valley.

• True
• False

used trade routes to travel to religious shrines or sites.

• pilgrim
• stupa
• peasant
• government official

Buddhist shrines shaped like a dome or a mound.

• pyramid
• ziggurat  
• stupa
• cathedral 

one of India's best-known ancient writers

• Chandragupta Maurya
• Kalidasa
• Asoka
• William Shakespeare 

considered to be the Mauryan dynasty's greatest king

• Chandragupta Maurya
• Asoka
• Kalidasa
• King Tut

founded India's first empire

• Chandragupta Maurya
• Kalidasa
• Asoka
• Dalai Lama 

The Mauryan dynasty did not set up a well-organized government.

• True
• False

The Mauryan ruler __________ built new roads and hospitals for people and animals.

• Asoka
• Chandragupta Mauryan
• Kalidasa
• Gupta

Five hundred years after the Mauryan dynasty failed, the ________ dynasty created an empire much of northern India.

• Kalidasa
• Asoka
• Gupta
• Hindu

Two famous sacred texts that Indians today still like to read are the "Mahabharata" and _________.

• Ramayana
• Bhagavad Gita
• Panchantantra
• Therevada