Ancient World History - MCQs with answers - Part 2
1. When did the rise of Median Empire occur?a) 745 BC
b) 722 BC
c) 750 BC
d) 728 BC
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) 728 BC
The Medes were an ancient Iranian people who lived in an area known as Media.
a) 612 BC
b) 600 BC
c) 599 BC
d) 563 BC
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 612 BC
Nineveh is an ancient Mesopotamian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River.
a) 600 BC
b) 599 BC
c) 563 BC
d) 551 BC
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 600 BC
Mahajanapada refers to one of the sixteen kingdoms and oligarchic republics that existed in ancient India.
a) Ananda
b) Devadatta
c) Mahakasyapa
d) Siddhartha Gautama
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: d) Siddhartha Gautama
"Buddha" is used as the title for the first awakened being in an era.
a) Alexander the Great
b) Cambyses II
c) Cyrus the Great
d) Darius I
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: c) Cyrus the Great
The Achaemenid Empire is called the First Persian Empire.
a) 546 BC
b) 544 BC
c) 539 BC
d) 529 BC
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) 544 BC
Bimbisara was Emperor of the Magadha empire from 542 BC till 492 BC and belonged to the Haryanka dynasty.
a) 539 BC
b) 529 BC
c) 525 BC
d) 512 BC
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) 529 BC
The remains of Cyrus the Great were interred in his capital city of Pasargadae.
a) 525 BC
b) 512 BC
c) 509 BC
d) 508 BC
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) 525 BC
Cambyses II expanded the empire into Egypt by defeating the Egyptian Pharaoh Psamtik III during the battle of Pelusium.
a) 512 BC
b) 509 BC
c) 508 BC
d) 500 BC
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: b) 509 BC
The Roman Republic expanded through a combination of conquest and alliance from central Italy to the entire Italian peninsula.
a) Cleisthenes
b) Draco
c) Hippias
d) Peisistratos
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: a) Cleisthenes
He was credited with increasing the power of the Athenian citizens’ assembly and for reducing the power of the nobility over Athenian politics.
