Mod 5 - Indian Empires

Which Indian leader unified northern India in the 320s BC?

• Candragupta Maurya

• Asoka

• Buddha

• Napoleon

What is the relationship between Candragupta's government and heavy taxes?

• He used heavy taxes as the earliest known form of medicare.

• Heavy taxes were used to build Buddhist temples.

• He taxed the population heavily for the protection he offered.

• He did not believe heavy taxes were part of the Hindu way.

Candragupta's grandson, and strongest ruler of the Mauryan dysnasty.

• Siddhartha

• Buddha

• Nirvana

• Asoka

Asoka tired of bloodshed and war, and converted to Buddhism.

• True

• False

After converting to Buddhism, Asoka devoted the rest of his rule to improving the lives of his people by

• focusing of the arts.

• building roads, hospitals, and universities.

• building a massive Buddhist temple.

• building a complex system of canals.

How did India's government change after the death of Asoka?

• India became one of the world's first communist countries.

• India converted almost entirely to Christianity.

• India was thrown into a huge war with Greece.

• India divided into smaller states, and Buddhism spread.

What is the name of the dynasty that reunited India and revived Hindu traditions?

• Gupta

• Asoka

• Mauryan

• Buddha

By pouring money into the country's borders, as well as promoting the arts, literature, and religion, _____________________ led India to its high point of civilization.

• Candra Gupta II

• Asoka

• Mauryan

• Siddhartha

The Gupta Dynasty lasted until fierce attacks by the __________ from Central Asia during the late 400s drained the empire of its resources.

• Celts

• Mongols

• Huns

• Greeks

After fierce attacks by the Huns in the late 400s, what happened to India?

• broke up once again into a patchwork of small states

• defeated the Huns and became one of the world's largest empires

• got absorbed into Chinese territory

• allied with the Greeks to defeat the invading forces