WorksheetsIndian Society and Rulers Level 1
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 19mins
Which action was forbidden by India's caste system?
eating certain foods
religious study by non-Brahmins
moving from one village to another
marrying outside one's caste
Gupta rulers supported the construction of which types of structures in order to improve life in India?
dams and canals
temples and libraries
roads and universities
bridges and fortresses
One accomplishment of Aryan control of India was the development of
A polytheistic religion
A written sanskrit alphabet
a river valley civilization
trade relations with China
What happened to the Mauryan Empire during the reign of Ashoka?
It bean to disintegrate.
It grew to include nearly all of India.
It was conquered by the Aryans.
It established trade relations with China.
The Indian caste system originated with
Eurasian invaders
Buddhist missionaries
Middle Eastern Traders
European colonial rulers
What happened as a result of outlawing the caste system in 1949?
a revival of traditional Hindu rituals and ceremonies
a renewal of tensions between the various ethnic groups in India
a mass movement of the population from rural to urban areas
an increase for educational opportunities for India's poorest people
Who founded India's first empire?
Ashoka
Samudra
Bindusara
Chandragupta
The religion of the Aryans, who invaded India around 1500 BCE, evolved into which of the following religions?
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
Hinduism
Which innovation can be attributed to Gupta Mathematicians?
The invention of a digit to represent zero
The use of multiplication to speed up adding
The development of the basics of geometry
The creation of a mechanical adding machine
Which group of people had early influence on the culture of India that can still be seen today?
Vedic era cultures who developed written scriptures
Buddhist missionaries from East and Southeast Asia
Greek and Roman conquerors who briefly controlled parts of India
Mesopotamian traders who first made contact with Indian civilizations
What positions do the Untouchables occupy in the Indian Caste System?
They are religious extremists
They are members of the highest caste
They are foreigners hired as soldiers
They are completely outside of the caste system
Which event took place after the death of the emperor Ashoka?
Hinduism returned as India's dominant religion
India fell under foreign control for several centuries
The hold of the caste system in India began to weaken
Buddhists throughout the country were persecuted and driven out of the country
Aryan influences on India included which of the following (check all that apply)
Sanskrit
Vedic Hinduism
Trade with other civilizations
The caste system
Which factor had the greatest influence on the art produced during the Gupta Empire?
The revival of Hinduism
Diplomatic missions to China
Developments in Mathematics
The conquest of foreign people
Indian mathematicians working during the Gupta Empire were responsible for which mathematical achievement?
A decimal system
A mechanical device for adding and multiplying
A system of symbols to represent abstract concepts
A way of representing geometric shapes as equations
What effects did power and social class have on the lives of the ancient Indian people?
