Practice Quiz 6-3

Buddhist shrines shaped like a dome or mound

• pilgrim
• Chandragupta Maurya
• stupa
• Kalidasa
• Asoka

one of India’s best-known ancient writers

• pilgrim
• Chandragupta Maurya
• stupa
• Kalidasa
• Asoka

used trade routes to travel to religious shrines or sites

• pilgrim
• Chandragupta Maurya
• stupa
• Kalidasa
• Asoka

considered to be the Mauryan dynasty’s greatest king

• pilgrim
• Chandragupta Maurya
• stupa
• Kalidasa
• Asoka

founded India’s first empire

• pilgrim
• Chandragupta Maurya
• stupa
• Kalidasa
• Asoka

The Mauryan dynasty set up a __________ government, which was controlled by the capital city.

• city-state
• centralized
• theocratic
• democratic

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

• Asoka
• Chandragupta Maurya
• Kalidasa
• Gupta

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

• Kalidasa
• Asoka
• Gupta
• Hindu

Two famous epic stories that Indians today still like to read are the Mahabharata and __________.

• Ramayana
• Bhagavad Gita
• Panchantantra
• Theravada

The Indian invention of __________ around A.D.500 had a great impact on the study of mathematics and science.

• algebra
• zero
• plastic surgery
• algorithms