CUET UG Kings, Farmers and Towns — practice questions
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Practice CUET UG Kings, Farmers and Towns in the app →In the 1830s, the East India Company mint official who deciphered the Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts was:In early inscriptions the king titled 'Piyadassi' ('pleasant to behold') is identified as:Between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE, the most powerful mahajanapada was:The founder of the Mauryan Empire (c. 321 BCE) was:Epigraphy is the study of:The conquest that proved a turning point in Asoka's reign was that of:The earliest inscriptions in the subcontinent were largely written in which language?Early Buddhist and Jaina texts mention how many mahajanapadas?States known as ganas or sanghas were a form of government best described as:The Greek ambassador who left an account of the court of Chandragupta Maurya was:The Arthashastra, a key source on the Mauryas, is traditionally attributed to:In the fourth century BCE the capital of Magadha was shifted from Rajagaha to:Asokan inscriptions in the north-west of the subcontinent were written in the:Asoka primarily used his rock and pillar inscriptions to proclaim:Both Mahavira and the Buddha are said to have belonged to states of which type?The term 'janapada' literally means:Modern historians explain the rise of Magadha mainly by:The five major political centres of the Mauryan empire were Pataliputra, Taxila, Ujjayini, Tosali and:The Dharmasutras, which laid down norms for rulers, were composed by:The provincial centre Suvarnagiri (literally 'golden mountain') was probably important for:Undated inscriptions are assigned a date mainly on the basis of:Ambitious early kings credited with building Magadhan power include Bimbisara, Ajatasattu and:Asoka's dhamma, as proclaimed in his inscriptions, included all of the following EXCEPT:Megasthenes' account of Mauryan India survives today:The sixth century BCE is regarded as a major turning point in early Indian history because it saw the emergenc