950143772 | Chandragupta. | The first ruler of the Maurya Dynasty was | 0 | |
950143773 | it ruled a larger territory. | The Maurya Dynasty differed from the Gupta Dynasty in that | 1 | |
950143774 | an array of regional political cultures. | Classical India's political climate was characterized most by | 2 | |
950143775 | enforcing rules about social behavior. | The Indian caste system functioned as a political institution by | 3 | |
950143776 | in the caste system. | Buddhism differed from Hinduism by not believing | 4 | |
950143777 | False | T/FClassical Indian civilization emerged without any type of historical foundation. | 5 | |
950143778 | True | T/FThe Epic Age also saw the creation of the Upanishads, epic poems with a mystical religious flavor. | 6 | |
950143779 | False | T/FIn 322 B.C.E., a young soldier, Ashoka, seized power along the Ganges River, becoming the first of the Maurya Dynasty of Indian rulers. | 7 | |
950143780 | True | T/FThe Maurya Dynasty was a territorially more expansive than the Gupta Dynasty. | 8 | |
950143781 | False | T/FClassical Indian civilization was defined by its centralized state administrations. | 9 | |
950143782 | False | T/FIndian social structure was characterized by its fluidity and promotion of interaction across different cultural, political, and economic divisions. | 10 | |
950143783 | True | T/FClassical Indian civilization was able to accommodate a number of religious belief systems. | 11 | |
950143784 | False | T/FIndia's religious traditions ruled out the emergence of other forms of cultural production. | 12 | |
950143785 | Himalayas | The vast Indian subcontinent is partially separated from the rest of Asia, and particularly from East Asia, by northern mountain ranges, most notably the __________ . | 13 | |
950143786 | Aryans | During the Indian formative period, called the Vedic and Epic ages, the __________ conquerors impressed their own stamp on the culture and social structure of India. | 14 | |
950143787 | Sanskrit | Most of what we know about the preclassical period in Indian History comes from literary epics developed by the Aryans, initially passed on orally and only later written down in __________ . | 15 | |
950143788 | Ashoka | handragupta's grandson, __________ , constitutes one of the greatest figures in early Indian history. | 16 | |
950143789 | Gupta | It remains true that the Maurya and __________ dynasties constituted the most successful political regimes in India. | 17 | |
950143790 | Brahmins | The priestly caste, or __________ , stood at the top of the caste system. | 18 | |
950143791 | Hinduism | Unlike all other world religions, __________ had no single founder, no central holy figure from whom the basic religious impulse stemmed. | 19 | |
950143792 | Upanishads | t was in the __________ that the Hindu idea of divine force informing the whole universe first surfaced clearly. | 20 | |
950143793 | Dharma | The Hindu ethical concept of __________ was far less detailed and prescriptive than the ethical codes associated with the most other world religions, including Christianity and Islam. | 21 | |
950143794 | Tamils | Southern Indians, __________ , were active in trading networks all over the Middle East. | 22 | |
950143795 | the sum of mertis accumulated by a sould at any given point in tiem; determined the caste to which the sould would be assigned in the next life. | karam | 23 | |
950143796 | stone shrines built to house pieces of bone or hair and personal possessions said to be relics of the Buddha; preserved Buddhist architectural forms. | stupa | 24 | |
950143797 | rigid system of social classification first introduced into indian subcontinent by aryans | caste system | 25 |
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