Top 250+ Solved Early India- State to Empire MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ………………. is of the view that the Indus script was read from left toright.
a. sir john marshall
b. mortimer wheeler
c. r.d. banerji
d. dr. s.r. rao
Q. ………… believes that the Indus script can be read from right to left.
a. dr. prem nath
b. mortimer wheeler
c. r.d. banerji
d. dr. s.r. rao
Q. According to ……………., “Perhaps the discovery of some bilingual inscriptions in those areas with which the Indus people had close trade relations might give us the right clue to the decipherment of the Indus script”.
a. r.d. banerji
b. mortimer wheeler
c. dr. a.d. pusalkar
d. dr. s.r. rao
Q. The word Veda is derived from …… word ‘vid’ which means ‘to know’.
a. hindi
b. malayalam
c. sanskrit
d. telugu
Q. …………… are essentially a compilation of prayers and hymns, offeredby different families of poets and sages to various Gods.
a. the vedas
b. sangam literature
c. periyapuranam
d. ramayanam
Q. The …………. are also ‘samhitas’ in the sense that they represent theoral tradition of that period.They were not recorded when they were first composed.
a. vedas
b. sangam literature
c. mahabharatham
d. periyapuranam
Q. The OCP was discovered in the archaeological sites of …….. in 1950’s.
a. u.p
b. delhi
c. bengal
d. madhya pradesh
Q. Black and Red Ware (BRW) have been found at ……… in between OCPand PGW levels during the excavations conducted in the early 1960’s.
a. atranjikhera
b. alangirpur
c. hasthinapuri
d. lothal
Q. The ………….. contains both hymns and commentaries. It describesthe performance of sacrifices.
a. atharva veda
b. rigveda
c. samaveda
d. yajurveda
Q. …………… called the Upanishads as, “the most wonderful compositionof human mind”.
a. james mill
b. mortimer wheeler
c. william johnes
d. max muller
Q. The Ramayana was composed by the great saint …………...
a. kumaranasan
b. vallathol
c. sri narayan guru
d. valmiki
Q. …………… deals with the conflict between the Aryan and non-Aryancivilizations.
a. ramayana
b. mahabharata
c. atharva veda
d. upanishads
Q. The ……………. describes the war between the Pandavas and theKauravas. According to tradition, Vyasa was its compiler.
a. mahabharata
b. ramayana
c. upanishads
d. sangam literature
Q. There is good archaeological evidence to show that in the centuries following 2000 B.C, north-west India was invaded by some tribes fromthe west.They were called …………...
a. aryans
b. dravidians
c. huns
d. ostrogoths