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WorksheetsIndia's Empires & Buddhism
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 17mins
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
What did the Buddha believe ended people's suffering?
youth
death
knowledge
enlightenment
What is the Gupta Period known as
the golden age.
the silver age.
the dark age.
the bronze age.
What do Hinduism and Buddhism have in common?
Belief in many gods
Bathing rituals
Belief in many lifetimes
Complicated writings
What evidence might an archaeologist find that would be evidence of a golden age?
advanced weapons
walled cities
animal skeletons
beautiful sculptures
What made it possible to build complex buildings, like this one?
slaves
priests
mathematics
astrologers
