India's Empires & Buddhism

What empire developed the Hindu-Arabic numeral of zero?

• Egyptian Empire

• Gupta Empire

• Mauryan Empire

• Sumerian Empire

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

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

Who conquered India before Chandragupta?

• Akkadians and Assyrians

• Persia and Alexander the Great

• Persia and Egypt

• Alexander the Great and Cleopatra

Chandragupta had a famous grandson named...

• Asoka

• Gandhi

• The Buddha

• Kalidasa

What is the message of the Bhagavad Gita?

• It taught peaceful resistance, or ahimsa.

• It taught people that it was noble to do their duty even when it was painful.

The Mahabharata is thought to have been written by several different authors, and it describes a great war for control of an Indian kingdom.

• True

• False