7/29/2017 Questions Asked in Previous Years Exam from Ancient History

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Questions Asked in Previous Years Exam from Ancient History

Previous Years Exam from Ancient History

1. The source of Swastika symbol  - Indus Valley

2. Who is considered as the father of Indian archaeology - Alexander
Cunningham
3. Meter scale has been discovered from ......... -  Harappa
4. Weapon never used by the -Indus people - Sword
5. What was the major industry in Chanhudaro? - Bead making
6. The word ‘Sindhan’ used by the Indus people denoted - Cotton
7. Evidence of fractional burial has been excavated from - Harappa
8. The word ‘godhume’ used in the vedic period denote - Wheat
9. ‘Yava’ denoted - Barley
10. Term used to denote rice in the vedic text - Vrihi
11. Vedic term sita denoted - Ploughed eld
12. Which veda mentions about wheel  - Rigveda
13. Vedi terms ‘Urvara’ or ‘kshetra’ denoted - Cultivated eld
14. The famous frog hymn in Rig Veda throws light to - Vedic education
15. Who was considered as the god of the vedas? - Varuna

16. Rigvedic term ‘Duhitri’ denoted - Milker of cows

17. Method used to calculate the number of cows in the Vedic period - Ashtakarni
18. Part of which veda has prose part - Yajur Veda
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18. Part of which veda has prose part - Yajur Veda
19. Who spread Aryan religion in South India - Agasthya
20. Vedic term ‘Aghanya’ denotes - Cows
21. The term ‘Bharata’ and ‘Bharatavarsha’ were rst used in - Rig Veda
22. Upanishad which mentions the four Ashramas of Vedic period - Jabala
Upanishad
23. Largest number of hymns in Rigveda a are in praise of - Indra
24. Edict which mentions about the relation between India and China -
Nagarjunakonda
25. First town in the vedic period to use burned bricks - Kausambi
26. First reference about lending money for interest can be found in - Satpatha
Brahmana
27. Rigvedic paintings have been discovered from Bhagvanpura. It is in which
state  - Haryana
28. Upanishad which mentions about police system  - Brihadaranyaka Upanishads
29. God who was considered as God of Gods - Varuna
30. Community which was considered as untouchables by the Buddhists.
- Chandalas
31. The language used by the Jains to spread their religion  - Prakrit
32. Who is considered as the St.John of Buddhism  - Ananda
33. Who is considered as Devil by the Buddhists  - Mara
34. Three daughters of ‘Mara’ -  lust, emotion and desire
35. The ruler who persecuted Buddhists - Pushyamitrasunga
36. Major philosophic school of Bhagvatism  - Vishishtadvaita
37. Earliest reference about Srikrishna can be found in  - Chandoghya Upanishad
38. Hindu God who found place in Greek literature  - Sri Krishna
39. Jain Thirthankara, who was related to Sri Krishna -- Rishabhadeva (Ist
Thirthankara)
40. Tamil god of the Sangham age for War and Victory - Kottavai
41. Saint who founded the Saivism  -Lakulisa
42. Tamil kingdom of the Sangham Age which sent an ambassador to the court of
Roman Emperor -  Augusts Pandyas
43. First Sangham was founded by  - Saint Agasthya
44. Famous poetess of the Sangham period - Avvaiyar
45. Greeco-Roman traders who visited South India during the Sangham period
were denoted with the term - Yavanas
46. Sangham work which describes about Buddhism - Manimekhalai
47. The word used by Ashoka to denote Buddha - Bhagavati
48. Ashokan inscriptions were desciphered by James prince in the year - 1837
49. Indo-Greek ruler who had his boundaries upto Pataliputra - Menander
50. Yuchi ruler who introduced gold coins for the rst time - Vima Kadphesus

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