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Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
List I List II
1. Asia Herat
2. Araehizia Kandhar
3. Gednosia Baluchistan
4. Parapyhadae Kabul

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Important Questions on Ancient History

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The highly polished monolithic Ashokan Pillars were carved out of single pieces of a buff-coloured sandstone, usually mined from the quarries of

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Which of the following Southern people are clearly mentioned in the Ashokan inscription?

 1. Cholas

2. Pallavas

3. Pandyas

4. Keralaputras

5 Satyaputra

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'Indica' of Megasthenes is now lost, but it is still preserved in the form of quotations by later writers. Who among the following was one of the later Greek writers to quote from Megasthenes?
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Chandragupta Maurya is said to have spent his last years in South India at a place called
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Who among the following is not contemporary of Ashoka?
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During Bindusara's reign. Ashoka suppressed an uprising at which place?
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Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
List I List II
1. Uttarapatha Taxila
2. Avantipatha Rajpura
3. Dakshinapatha Suvarnagiri
4. Kalinga Tosali

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14000+ Objective Questions General Studies>Chapter 1 - Ancient History>Exercise 5>Q 12
'Pativedikas' and 'Pulisanis' of Ashokan edicts are concerned with