General Studies: Important for Exam: Ancient Indian History MCQ Part 1
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Directions:
The following items consist of two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R) . You are to examine these two statements carefully and decide if the Assertion A and the Reason are individually true and if so, whether the Reason is a correct explanation of the Assertion.
Select your answer to these items using the codes given below and mark your answer sheet according.
(a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A.
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
(c) A is true but R is false.
(d) A is false but R is true.
Q. Assertion (A) :
The Rig-Veda is the earliest of the Aryan texts.
Reason (R) :
The Rig-Veda mention that the Septal – Sridham region was the original homes of the Aryans.
Q. Assertion (A) :
Agriculture was an important activity of the Harappan people.
Reason (R) :
A copper replica of a plough has been found at Banawal.
Q. Assertion (A) :
The Harappan people were the worshippers of՚shiva – Pasu. pati .
Reason (R) :
The Siva – Pasupathi seal have been found all over the region covered by their Harappan civilization.
Q. Assertion (A) :
The Harappan people had brisk trade with Mesopotamia.
Reason (R) :
The Mesopotamian inscriptions refers to a number of commodities of import and export from Melham.
Q. Assertion (A) :
The Buddhist Singhal included a number of females.
Reason (R) :
Buddha wanted nuns to play an important role in the spread of Buddhism.
Q. Assertion (A) :
The Jain worship the image of Tirthankara.
Reason (R) :
According to Jain philosophy God plays an important role in creating and maintaining the human beings.
Q. Assertion (A) :
A number of Roman antiquities have been found from the duhsama territories.
Reason (R) :
The Kushner՚s had trade contacts with the Roman Empire.
Q. Assertion (A) :
Pushy Mitra Sunga wanted to root out Buddhism from India.
Reason (R) :
He performed two horse – sacrifices.
Q. Assertion (A) :
Tara was an important deity worshipped by the followers of Mahayana Buddhism.
Reason (R) :
Mahayanists believed in the worship of images.
Q. Assertion (A) :
A number of schools of Philosophical though developed in the 6th Century (B. C.) in India.
Reason (R) :
The origin was rooted in the changing socio – economic condition in the Gang etic valley.
Q. Assertion (A) :
The stupas formed an important feature of the Buddhist architecture.
Reason (R) :
The custom of erecting a dome – Shaped structure as a form of memorial to the dead was pre – Buddhis in.
Q. Assertion (A) :
The ancient Indian law – book favored Varna – samara.
Reason (R) :
The Varna system envisaged a vertical division in society.
Q. Assertion (A) :
The principal occupation of the Megalithic people in peninsular India was agriculture.
Reason (R) :
The Varna system envisage a vertical division in society.
Q. Assertion (A) :
The Principal occupation of the Megalithic people in peninsular India was agriculture.
Reason (R) :
The had the knowledge of iron.