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Ashoka, The Emperor Who Gave Up War

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The _________ War changed Ashoka into a peace lover.
Kalinga
Magadha
Panipat
Buxar
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Ashokan Edicts are engraved in the ______________ script.
Prakrit
Sanskrit
Aramaic
Brahmi
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____________ is known as the only ruler who 'Gave up War after Victory'.
Ashoka
Bindusara
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___________ was the main source of revenue for the Mauryan Empire.
Taxation
Tributes
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The only kingdom Bindusara wasn't able to annex was -
Marwar
Mysore
Taxila
Kalinga
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Chandragupta Maurya's son was -
Ashoka
Bindusara
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____________ lay on the route from North to South India.
Ujjain
Taxila
Pataliputra
Kalinga
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________ was the capital city of the Mauryas.
Taxila
Pataliputra
Ujjain
Kalinga
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A book of Governance written by Kautilya -
Arthashastra
Indika
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Chandragupta Maurya was trained and guided by a Brahmin called -
Megasthenes
Dhana Nanda
Chanakya
Bindusara
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When members of the same family become rulers one after another, the family is often called -
An empire
A dynasty
A kingdom
Descendants
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Choose the correct order of the Mauryan Rulers.
1) Ashoka 2) Bindusara 3) Chandragupta Maurya
1) Chandragupta Maurya 2) Ashoka 3) Bindusara
1) Bindusara 2) Ashoka 3) Chandragupta Maurya
1) Chandragupta Maurya 2) Bindusara 3) Ashoka
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Who was Ashoka's grandfather?
Chandragupta Maurya
Akbar
Tansen
Krishnadevaraya
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Who was Ashoka's grandfather?
Chandragupta Maurya
Akbar
Tansen
Krishnadevaraya
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Ashoka sent his son and daughter ________________&____________to spread his idea of BUDDHISM
SANGHAMITRA &MAHENDRA
SANGYA & MOHAN
SANDHYA & MADHAV
DEVI & GAUTAMA
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Ashoka felt just as a ________________tries to teach is children it was his duty to instruct his people
KING
GOD
FATHER
TEACHER
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DHAMMA is the Prakrit word for the SANSKRIT TERM_________
DHAYA
DHAIRYA
DHAN
DHARMA
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Where is this situated ?
KEDARNATH
AMARNATH
SARNATH
BADRINATH
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In 323 BCE, this general was the FIRST European to achieve any military control in the Indus Valley region:
Seleucus I
Cyrus
Phillip II of Macedonia
Alexander the Great
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Buddhist Shrines
Synagogues
Cross
Hail Mary's
Stupas
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In the 320's BC a military leader named Candragupta Maurya seized control of the empire in the ______________ part of India.
Southern
Northern
Eastern
Western
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In the 320's BC a military leader named Candragupta Maurya seized control of the empire in the ______________ part of India.
Southern
Northern
Eastern
Western
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Why is emperor Ashoka called " Ashoka the Great"?
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