The first emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty was...

• Chandragupta
• Ashoka
• Siddhartha Gautama
• Aryan

Chandragupta divided the empire....

• into districts
• among his children
• into equal pieces
• into counties

Chandragupta's grandson who succeeded him to the throne was named...

• Ashoka
• Chandragupta 2
• Nanda
• Kautilya

Ashoka became a Buddhist after the great battle of

• Kalinga
• Calcutta 
• Maurya
• Nanda

Ashoka improved communication throughout the empire by...

• Constructing roads and rest houses
• Inventing the first telephone
• Morse code
• New smoke signal technique

What are the two major rivers of Ancient India?

• Tigris & Euphrates
• Nile & Blue Nile
• Indus & Ganges
• Huang He & Yangtze

The four classes (varnas) in the caste system are: 

• Pharaoh, priests, artisans, slaves
• Brahman, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Sudras
• King, queen, princes, lords
• Shogun, samurai, governors, artisans

Which group of people ranked highest on the caste system?

• warrior
• priests
• farmers
• merchants

India was the home of which empires?

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

Why is Chandragupta significant?

• He wrote India's first legal code
• He is the founder of Hinduism
• He united India into one empire