India First Empires

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

• Chandragupta Maurya

• Asoka

• Siddhartha Guatma

• Alexander the Great

• Kalidasa

Who founded the Mauryan Empire?

• Asoka

• Chandragupta Maurya

• Alexander the Great

• Kalidasa

Who conquered India before Chandragupta?

• Akkadians and Assyrians

• Persia and Alexander the Great

• Persia and Egypt

• Alexander the Great and Cleopatra

Which religion did Asoka convert to?

• Hinduism
• Buddhism
• Judaism

India was the home of which empires?

• Tang and Song
• Mauryan and Gupta
• Roman and Byzantine
• Mongol and Russian

headed by the mother rather than the father?

• matriarchal

• patriarchal

• matronatized

• patronized

headed by the eldest male?

• matriarchal

• patriarchal

• matronatized

• patronized

What was India’s second empire? Oversaw a great flowering of Indian civilization, especially Hindu culture.

• Aryan Empire

• Mauryan Empire

• Gupta Empire

• Indian Empire

Who was Chandragupta Maurya’s grandson? Brought the Mauryan Empire to its greatest heights.

• Sri Lanka Myanmar

• Tamil

• Siddhartha Gautama

• Asoka

Founded by Chandragupta Maurya when, in 321B.C., he killed the unpopular Nanda king and claimed the throne for himself?

• Mauryan Empire

• Seleucid Kingdom

• Gupta Empire

• Aryan Empire