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India's Empires & Buddhism

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What empire developed the Hindu-Arabic numeral of zero?

a)

Egyptian Empire

b)

Gupta Empire

c)

Mauryan Empire

d)

Sumerian Empire

2.

A series of rulers all from the same family

a)

A team

b)

A party

c)

A group

d)

A dynasty

e)

The Aryans

3.

Believed by many historians to be the greatest king of the Mauryan Dynasty

a)

Chandragupta Maurya

b)

Asoka

c)

Siddhartha Guatma

d)

Alexander the Great

e)

Kalidasa

4.

Buddhist Shrines

a)

Synagogues

b)

Cross

c)

Hail Mary's

d)

Stupas

5.

Who founded the Mauryan Empire?

a)

Asoka

b)

Chandragupta Maurya

c)

Alexander the Great

d)

Kalidasa

6.

What did the military ruler Asoka do when he walked over the battlefield one day and saw so much bloodshed?

a)

Devoted his life to peace and the Buddha

b)

Readied his army for another attack

c)

Converted to Hinduism

d)

walked away and became a monk

7.

Who conquered India before Chandragupta?

a)

Akkadians and Assyrians

b)

Persia and Alexander the Great

c)

Persia and Egypt

d)

Alexander the Great and Cleopatra

8.

Chandragupta had a famous grandson named...

a)

Asoka

b)

Gandhi

c)

The Buddha

d)

Kalidasa

9.

What is the message of the Bhagavad Gita?

a)

It taught peaceful resistance, or ahimsa.

b)

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

10.

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

a)

True

b)

False

11.

What did the Buddha believe ended people's suffering?

a)

youth

b)

death

c)

knowledge

d)

enlightenment

12.

What is the Gupta Period known as

a)

the golden age.

b)

the silver age.

c)

the dark age.

d)

the bronze age.

13.

What do Hinduism and Buddhism have in common?

a)

Belief in many gods

b)

Bathing rituals

c)

Belief in many lifetimes

d)

Complicated writings

14.

What evidence might an archaeologist find that would be evidence of a golden age?

a)

advanced weapons

b)

walled cities

c)

animal skeletons

d)

beautiful sculptures

15.

What made it possible to build complex buildings, like this one?

a)

slaves

b)

priests

c)

mathematics

d)

astrologers