Towns and Capital Cities

Q.

Who is a cartographer?

1. A person who names places.

2. A person who makes dials.

3. A person who makes carts.

4. A person who makes maps.

Q.

Who were Mahajanapadas?

Q. Which were the capital towns of the Indus Valley civilization?

1. Harappa
2. Babylon
3. Mohenjodaro
4. Assur

Q. What is a court or capital town?

1. A town with a lot of courts
2. A place where the king held his court, which often developed into a town
3. A town where the the royals convened regularly
4. A town that has been the capital of many empires

Q. Identify the famous cartographers, who made maps of India.

1. Gerard Mercator
2. Sir Thomas Roe
3. Jodocus Hondius
4. Saxton

Q.

Who were janapadas and mahajanapadas?

Q. and were the capital towns of the Indus Valley civilization.

1. Kausambi
2. Mohenjodaro
3. Indraprastha
4. Harappa

Q. Which of these towns/cities developed as a court town during the Rajput rule?

1. Ajmer
2. Kanauj
3. Fatehpur Sikri
4. Agra

Q.

The science of cartography differed in how many periods?

1. 2

2. 4

3. 5

4. 3

Q. How many Mahajapadas existed in India around 600 B.C.?

1. 10
2. 20
3. 13
4. 16

Q. Which of these towns/cities acted as court city in South India?

1. Kanchi
2. Badami
3. Kamboja
4. Manyakhet

Q. The accounts of which historian is an important source of information regarding Mughal administration?

1. Bertrand
2. Barbosa
3. Bernier
4. Balmer

Q. Which were the prominent capital towns during the vedic period?

1. Ayodhya and Indraprastha
2. Ayodhya and Hastinapura
3. Indraprastha and Hastinapura
4. Takshshila and Indraprastha

Q. Identify the travellers who have given us information about the urban history of the Mughal period.

1. Duarte Barbosa
2. Hector Barbossa
3. Ralph Fitch
4. Howard Finch

Q. What is a court or capital town?

1. A town with a lot of courts.
2. The place where the king held his court.
3. A town where the the royals convened regularly.
4. A town that has been the capital of many empires.

Q. give us infromation on old and new towns of India.

1. British records
2. Mughal writings
3. Land grant decrees
4. Maps

Q. The discovery of what encouraged people to abandon their nomadic lifestyles and settle down in places?

1. Hunting
2. Agriculture
3. Mining
4. Masonry

Q. What were some of the reasons for early towns to flourish?

1. Activities of religious persons.
2. Activities of traders.
3. Activities of craftsmen.
4. Activities of the ruling class.

Q. The Mughal ruler who prohibited the festivals of Deepavali, Dasara, Holi and Muharram.

1. Babar
2. Humayun
3. Aurangzeb
4. Jahangir

Q. The accounts of is an important source of information regarding Mughal administration.

1. Bernier
2. Barbosa
3. Balmer
4. Bertrand

Q. ____ gives us infromation on old and new towns of India.

1. Maps
2. Official Mughal decrees about land grants and revenues
3. Official writings of Mughal coutriers
4. Official British records

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