1. Which dynasty is considered identical with the Andhras mentioned in the Puranas?
2. In which region did the earliest Satavahana inscriptions appear?
3. Which ruling power did the Satavahanas defeat to establish their power in parts of central India?
4. Who were the greatest competitors of the Satavahanas, having established their power in the upper Deccan and western India?
5. Which Satavahana king restored the fortunes of the family after they were dispossessed by the Sakas?
6. Whose lineage did Gautamiputra Satakarni claim to have destroyed?
7. Consider the following statements regarding Gautamiputra Satakarni:
(I) He claimed to have destroyed the Kshaharata lineage.
(II) His empire extended from Malwa in the north to Karnataka in the south.
(III) He set up his capital at Paithan on the Godavari.
Which of the above is/are correct?
8. Which Saka ruler of Saurashtra defeated the Satavahanas twice but did not destroy them due to matrimonial relations?
9. Which Satavahana king recovered north Konkan and Malwa from the Saka rulers and was noted as a lover of trade and navigation?
10. Consider the following pairs:
(I) Gautamiputra Satakarni – defeated Nahapana
(II) Rudradaman I – Saka ruler of Saurashtra
(III) Yajna Sri Satakarni – recovered north Konkan and Malwa
Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
11. Up to which year did the successors of Gautamiputra rule?
12. According to Pliny, how many infantry did the Andhra kingdom maintain?
13. Which metal did the Satavahanas and Kushans NOT issue coins in, unlike gold used by the Kushans?
14. The Satavahanas are described in their inscriptions as originally belonging to which kind of social group of the Deccan?
15. What social structure did the Satavahanas show traces of, despite being basically patriarchal in succession?
16. In Satavahana administration, what was their district called, as it was known in the time of Asoka?
17. Who was appointed as provincial governor in the Satavahana administration, reflecting the military and feudal character of their rule?
18. Who was the head of a military regiment consisting of nine chariots, nine elephants, 25 horses and 45 foot-soldiers, placed in charge of rural administration?
19. Consider the following statements regarding the Satavahana feudatory grades:
(I) The highest grade was formed by the king, called raja, who had the right to strike coins.
(II) The second grade was formed by the mahabhoja.
(III) The third grade was formed by the senapati.
Which of the above is/are correct?
20. Which Prakrit text, consisting of 700 verses, is attributed to a Satavahana king called Hala?
21. What was the official language of the Satavahanas, in which all their inscriptions were composed?
22. What was the monastery structure called in Satavahana rock-cut architecture, as distinct from the chaitya?
23. The most famous chaitya of the Satavahana phase, about 40 metres long, is located at which site in the western Deccan?
24. Nagarjunakonda, which prospered most under the Ikshvakus, is located in which present-day state?
25. From what circa date can the beginnings of the megaliths be traced?
26. In which two regions of the peninsula was the concentration of megaliths the greatest?
27. Which weapon, later associated with Siva, has also been found in the megaliths?
28. Consider the following statements regarding megalithic burial practices in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu:
(I) Skeletons of the dead were buried in urns made of red pottery in pits.
(II) These urns were generally surrounded by stone circles.
(III) Grave goods in these urn-burials were not too many.
Which of the above is/are correct?
29. Which early source first mentions the Pandyas, describing their kingdom as celebrated for pearls?
30. What was the capital of the Pandya kingdom, described as the Tamil word for Mathura?
31. The Pandya kings sent embassies to which Roman emperor?
32. What was the capital of the Chola kingdom, identical with Kaveripattanam?
33. Which famous Chola king founded Puhar and constructed 160 km of embankment along the Kaveri river?
34. Which earlier Chola king conquered Sri Lanka in the middle of the second century B.C. and ruled over it for nearly 50 years?
35. The Chera or Kerala country owed its importance chiefly to trade with which foreign power?
36. Who was described by Chera poets as their greatest king, known as the Red Chera?
37. Consider the following statements regarding the Chola-Chera conflict around A.D. 150:
(I) The Cheras killed the father of the Chola king Karikala.
(II) The two kingdoms later concluded a matrimonial alliance.
(III) The Chera king later committed suicide out of shame after being defeated and wounded while allied with the Pandyas against the Cholas.
Which of the above is/are correct?
38. Which produce, in addition to paddy and sugarcane, was grown by the megalithic people even though they did not settle on the plains?
39. What was the title given to captains of the army at a formal ceremony among the Tamil warrior class?
40. What was the ruling caste of the Chola and Pandya kingdoms called, which held marriage relations with the vallalas?
41. Which class of women, whose status differed little from that of the slave, carried out most agricultural operations in the Tamil region?
42. Which chief local god was worshipped by the people in the Tamil land during this period, also called Subramaniya?
43. In what period was the available Sangam literature, produced by the sangam assemblies, actually compiled?
44. Where was the sangam, a college or assembly of Tamil poets, held under royal patronage?
45. Which text, belonging to pre-Maurya times, mentions about two dozen occupations?
46. Which text catalogues 36 kinds of workers living in the town of Rajgir?
47. The Milinda Panho enumerates how many occupations, of which 60 were connected with crafts?
48. How many crafts were associated with the working of gold, silver, lead, tin, copper, brass, iron and precious stones?
49. Which region of Andhra made special progress in iron manufacture, with items like balance rods and ladles discovered in the Karimnagar and Nalgonda districts?
50. To which foreign ports were Indian iron and steel, including cutlery, exported and given great prestige in Western Asia?
51. Which town was a great centre for the manufacture of a special type of cloth called sataka?
52. A brick-built dyeing vat belonging to the 1st-3rd centuries A.D. has been unearthed at Uraiyur, a suburb of which Tamil Nadu town?
53. At which site in Nalgonda district have the largest number of terracottas and their manufacturing moulds been found?
54. Consider the following statements regarding artisan guilds:
(I) In the second century A.D., devotees of Buddhism in Maharashtra deposited money with guilds of potters, oil millers and weavers.
(II) In the same century, a chief deposited money with the guild of flour makers at Mathura.
(III) A hundred brahmanas were to be served daily out of the income from this endowment.
Which of the above is/are correct?
55. Which port on the western coast of India is described as the most important and flourishing of the period?
56. What was the name of the trade route that ran from Taxila through the modern Panjab up to the western coast of the Yamuna, then via Mathura and Ujjain to Broach?
57. Around what time were the monsoons discovered, enabling sailors to sail directly from the eastern coast of the Arabian Sea to its western coast?
58. Which Roman emperor's conquest of Mesopotamia, making it a Roman province in A.D. 115, facilitated Kushan trade with the eastern Roman empire?
59. At Begram, 72 km north of Kabul, large glass jars made in which countries were discovered, along with Graeco-Roman bronze statues?
60. Which Roman writer, in his account called Natural History written in A.D. 77, complained that Rome was being drained of gold on account of trade with India?
61. Which dynasty issued gold coins called dinar, on account of contact with Rome, which became abundant under Gupta rule?
62. Consider the following statements regarding indigenous dynasties and their coinage:
(I) The Nagas, who ruled in central India, used copper and bronze coins.
(II) The Yaudheyas ruled in eastern Rajasthan along with adjacent Haryana, Panjab and Uttar Pradesh.
(III) The Mitras ruled in Kausambi, Mathura, Avanti, and Ahichchhatra.
Which of the above is/are correct?
63. Which town was the most important because it was the nodal point of two trade routes, one from Kausambi and the other from Mathura, and also exported agate and carnelian stones?
64. From which century onwards did towns in the Satavahana kingdom, in Maharashtra, Andhra and Tamil Nadu, generally begin to decline?
