Choose the correct answer:
Question 1.
How did men become rulers around 3,000 years ago?
(a) By choosing rulers by voting
(b) By ashvamedha yajna
(c) None of these
(d) Both (a) and (b)
Answer
Answer: (b) By ashvamedha yajna
Question 2.
They allowed to pass ‘horse’. What did it mean?
(a) They accepted the raja was stronger
(b) They accepted the raja was weaker
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) They accepted the raja was stronger
Question 3.
Who guarded the horse?
(a) Janas
(b) Raja’s men
(c) Ordinary people
(d) All of these
Answer
Answer: (b) Raja’s men
Question 4.
Who brought gifts for rulers?
(a) Vaishyas
(b) Shudras
(c) Brahmins
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) Vaishyas
Question 5.
Where is Hastinapur located?
(a) Near Delhi
(b) Near Mumbai
(c) Near Meerut
(d) Near Agra
Answer
Answer: (c) Near Meerut
Question 6.
Where is Purana Qila situated?
(a) Delhi
(b) Agra
(c) Kolkata
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (a) Delhi
Question 7.
About 2,500 years ago what turned into Mahajanapadas?
(a) Ordinary janapadas
(b) Important janapadas
(c) Both (a) and (6)
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (b) Important janapadas
Question 8.
About 2,500 years ago where was Kaushambi situated?
(a) Kurukshetra in Haryana
(b) Allahabad in UP
(c) Chandigarh in Punjab
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (b) Allahabad in UP
Question 9.
In what mode were the payments made?
(a) Punch marked coins
(b) Paper notes
(c) Gold coins
(d) Silver coins
Answer
Answer: (a) Punch marked coins
Question 10.
Why did the rulers collect regular taxes?
(a) For building huge forts
(b) For maintaining big armies
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (c) Both (a) and (b)
Question 11.
How did herders pay taxes?
(a) Forest products
(b) Animals and animal products
(c) By labouring
(d) None of these
Answer
Answer: (b) Animals and animal products
Question 12.
Why was the river Ganga important for people?
(a) For transport
(b) For water supply
(c) For making land fertile
(d) All of these
Answer
Answer: (d) All of these
Question 13.
Who could not participate in the assemblies?
(a) Women
(b) Dasas
(c) Kammakaras
(d) All of these
Answer
Answer: (d) All of these