Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 132

All three statements describe Harappan bead making correctly: the stones used, the shapes made and the drills used to bore them.

Mazzini, a member of the Carbonari who had been sent into exile, founded Young Italy at Marseilles in 1831 and a wider society, Young Europe, at Berne in 1834.

Olympe de Gouges wrote this in her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791. Olympe de Gouges was a French writer and one of the most active women of the French Revolution.

The two brothers of the Sangama family founded the city of Vijayanagara on the Tungabhadra in 1336 and with it the Vijayanagara empire, which lasted until the defeat at Talikota in 1565; the ruins at Hampi in Karnataka are a World Heritage Site.

Chilarai, whose given name was Shukladhwaj, was the brother and commander of the Koch king Nara Narayan, the son of the founder Biswa Singha, and his campaigns in the sixteenth century carried Koch power across the lower Brahmaputra valley before the kingdom split into Koch Bihar and Koch Hajo.

He founded the Sikkim Praja Mandal in 1945 to oppose the feudal landlord system and the absolute rule of the Chogyal.

The Portuguese captain Bartolomeu Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa in 1488. He called it the Cape of Storms, and the king of Portugal renamed it the Cape of Good Hope because the way to India now lay open.

The Vajji confederacy had its centre at Vaishali in north Bihar and was the best known gana-sangha, a state governed not by a single king but by an assembly of the heads of ruling families.

The North Atlantic Treaty was signed at Washington on 4 April 1949 by twelve countries, during the Berlin blockade, and bound its members to treat an attack on one as an attack on all.

The Junagadh rock inscription of about 150 CE was issued by Rudradaman I, the Shaka ruler of the Western Kshatrapa line.

As the Franco-Prussian War ended, the German princes assembled in the Hall of Mirrors of the French royal palace at Versailles and proclaimed Wilhelm I of Prussia as German Emperor on 18 January 1871.

Kumaragupta I, who bore the title Mahendraditya, is credited with founding the Nalanda Mahavihara in present-day Bihar. Later rulers, including Harshavardhana and the Palas, endowed it further, and it grew into the largest residential centre of Buddhist learning in Asia before it was destroyed in the late twelfth century.

The iron stirrup gave the rider a firm seat, and that firm seat made the lance charge possible, so both statements are correct.

The Aihole inscription was composed in Sanskrit by Ravikirti, the Jain court poet of the Chalukya king Pulakeshin II of Badami.

The Luddites demanded a minimum wage and the right to form trade unions, while they opposed machinery that took away their work.

Tanaji led the night assault that recovered the fort of Kondana from the Mughal garrison in 1670 and was killed in the fighting.

Sankardeva, who lived in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, preached the Ekasarana Dharma, devotion to a single god without caste barriers or elaborate ritual, composed the Kirtan Ghosa and the Borgeets, created the one-act Ankiya Naat plays, and established the satra monasteries and the namghar prayer halls that still organise…

The expedition left Spain in 1519 under Magellan, who crossed the strait now named after him and named the Pacific Ocean for its calm waters.

The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance was signed in the Polish capital on 14 May 1955, which is why the alliance carries that city's name, although its forces were commanded from Moscow.

The Zollverein was formed in 1834 under Prussian leadership. It removed the internal customs duties that had made trade between the German states slow and costly and reduced the number of currencies in circulation, so a single economic space existed long before a single political one.