The Shisunaga Dynasty was overthrown by ?
Answer: C
It was overthrown by Mahapadma Nanda.
He displaced the Shishunagas about 345 BCE and founded the Nanda dynasty, described in the Puranas as the destroyer of all Kshatriyas and the first ruler of low birth to hold Magadha.
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We can know about early vedic period from
Answer: B
From the Rigveda.
The early Vedic period is known almost wholly from the Rigveda; its hymns are the only substantial contemporary source, and the archaeology of the period cannot be securely tied to the people the text describes.
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We hear of two envoys being sent to the Roman kings, one in 27-28 AD to the court of Augustus and the other in 110-20 AD to the court of
Answer: B
It was Trajan.
Roman writers record an Indian embassy to Augustus about 27-28 CE and another reaching Trajan about 110-20 CE, during the period of heavy Indo-Roman trade through the Red Sea ports.
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Visakhadatta sketches the event after the death of Samudragupta in his work
Answer: A
It is the Devichandraguptam.
Vishakhadatta's play deals with Ramagupta, who succeeded Samudragupta and agreed to surrender his queen Dhruvadevi to the Saka king, and with Chandragupta II, who killed the Saka, then his brother, and married Dhruvadevi. Mudrarakshasa, his other play, is about Chandragupta Maurya.
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The Venetian traveler who travelled with his wife and reached Vijayanagar around 1420 was
Answer: B
It was Nicolo de Conti.
The Venetian reached Vijayanagara about 1420, in Deva Raya I's reign, and left the earliest European description of the city - its circuit of walls, the number of its men able to bear arms, and the festivals of Mahanavami and Holi.
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The two principles monuments of Alaud-din Khilji's reign - the Jama at Kana Masjid and Alai Darwaza - were constructed at
Answer: B
They were built at Delhi.
The Alai Darwaza of 1311 is the southern gateway to the Quwwat-ul-Islam enclosure at the Qutb, and the first building in India to use a true dome and true arch. The Jamaat Khana Masjid stands at Nizamuddin.
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Who was the founder of Madras ?
Answer: A
It was Francis Day.
He obtained the strip of coast from the Nayak of Chandragiri in 1639 and built Fort St George there, around which Madras grew - the first English fortified settlement in India.
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Kanva Dynasty was from
Answer: A
From 73 BCE to 28 BCE.
Vasudeva Kanva founded the dynasty by killing the last Shunga, and four kings ruled for forty-five years before the Satavahanas ended it.
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When was Burma separated from India
Answer: B
It was separated in 1937.
The Government of Burma Act of 1935 came into force on 1 April 1937, giving Burma its own governor and legislature under the same Crown. Aden was separated in the same year.
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Through which one of the following, the king exercised his control over villages in the Vijayanagar Empire?
Answer: D
Through the mahanayakacharya.
He was the officer standing between the village and the central government in the Vijayanagara system, through whom the king's authority reached the villages. The nayakas held military tenures, and the dandanayaka was a commander.
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