India's First Empires

A series of rulers all from the same family

• A team

• A party

• A group

• A dynasty

• The Aryans

Believed by many historians to be the greatest king of the Mauryan Dynasty

• Chandragupta Maurya

• Asoka

• Siddhartha Guatma

• Alexander the Great

• Kalidasa

Buddhist Shrines

• Synagogues

• Cross

• Hail Mary's

• Stupas

An important writer of the Gupta period

• Kalidasa

• Aryabhata

• Chandragupta

• Siddartha

Who founded the Mauryan Empire?

• Asoka

• Chandragupta Maurya

• Alexander the Great

• Kalidasa

What did the military ruler Asoka do when he walked over the battlefield one day and saw so much bloodshed?

• Devoted his life to peace and the Buddha

• Readied his army for another attack

• Converted to Hinduism

• walked away and became a monk

The Gupta Empire grew wealthy through_____________________

• War

• Robbing

• Trade

• Racing

Who conquered India before Chandragupta?

• Akkadians and Assyrians

• Persia and Alexander the Great

• Persia and Egypt

• Alexander the Great and Cleopatra

Chandragupta founded his empire on what river?

• Ganges

• Indus

• Nile

• Euphrates

Capital city of the Mauryan Dynasty

• Salem

• Jerusalem

• Cairo

• Pataliputra