1. Which Sultan of Delhi Sultanate introduced the coin ‘silver Tanka’?
Correct : C. iltumish
2. Name the practice which is used for the redistribution of wealth in the Vedic period?
Correct : A. dana
3. What is the name of the metal coin used during the vedic period?
Correct : C. nishka
4. What metal is used to make nishka?
Correct : A. gold
5. Pick out the coin which is not in circulation in the Vedic period?
Correct : D. jital
6. Who was the first Kushan king issued gold coins?
Correct : A. vima kadphises
7. Which Hindu god appears on the coins issued by Vima Kadphises?
Correct : B. siva
8. Which south Indian dynasty invited members of Ayyavole to its territory?
Correct : A. pandyas
9. Which non-Indian script is used in Kushana coins?
Correct : B. kharoshti
10. Who was the first independent Kushan King in India?
Correct : C. vima kadphises
11. With which dynasty that Rabatak Inscription is associated?
Correct : A. kushana
12. Name the Roman emperor to whose court the Kushan kings sent their ambassadors?
Correct : C. trajan
13. Who was the Indo-Greek king appeared on the coins issued by Kujula Kadphises?
Correct : A. hermaeus
14. Which Kushan king portrayed Buddha for the first time on coins?
Correct : D. kanishka
15. Who was the Satavahana ruler issued coins with images of rulers for the first time?
Correct : A. guatamiputra satakarni
16. Who is kusidin?
Correct : A. money lender
17. Which dynasty issued coins like Ka, pon, kanam and Kasu?
Correct : C. chera
18. Which was the leading trade emporium of Chera kingdom?
Correct : A. musiri
19. Which city under Satavahanas was famous for metal industry?
Correct : B. vinukonda
20. Which port under the Satavahans lay on the western coast of India?
Correct : A. bharuch
21. Krishanala was a coin in circulation during the……..period
Correct : C. vedic
22. Which inscription of Asoka refers to Keralaputras?
Correct : A. girnar
23. Which Kushan king replaced the Greek language with the Bactrian language?
Correct : A. kanishka
24. Which among the following terms do not mention coins?
Correct : D. vrata
25. What is the description not associated with gahapati?
Correct : D. guild master
26. Who is the Indian king mentioned by name Amitraghata in Greeco- Roman accounts?
Correct : A. bindusara
27. What are the copper coins issues by Mouryas known?
Correct : A. mashakas
28. What is the name of the silver coins issued by the mourays ?
Correct : A. panas
29. Most of the punch marked coins issued by Mouryans are in….metal
Correct : A. silver
30. What are the taxes existed in the Mourayan Empire ?
Correct : D. krisnala
31. What is called shulka?
Correct : A. duties on exported and imported goods
32. Which Asokan inscription mentioned that Lumbini is exempted from bali?
Correct : A. rummindei insciription
33. Who is Akaraadykasha mentioned by Koutilya?
Correct : A. officer in charge of mines
34. Who was in charge of trade under the Mouryas?
Correct : A. panyadhyaksha
35. Who was Rupadarsaka in Mouryan government ?
Correct : A. inspector of coins
36. With which ruler is associated Hathigumpa inscription?
Correct : B. kharavela
37. What is the subject matter of Gatha Sattsai written by Hala?
Correct : B. eroticism
38. Which Satavahana ruler is described as the destroyer of Shakas?
Correct : A. gautamiputra satakarni
39. What is the large administrative divisions of the Satavahanas knowns as ?
Correct : A. ahara
40. Naneghat inscription refers to?
Correct : A. satavahanas.
41. Who is the earliest known king of Cheras?
Correct : A. udiyanjeral
42. Which Chera is supposed to capture Yavana traders from Malabar Coast?
Correct : A. nedunjeral adan
43. Which Chera ruler brought stones for Kannaki installation from Himalayas ?
Correct : B. senguttuvan
44. Who is koluvanikan?
Correct : C. trader in ploughshares in tamilakam
45. Korkai port is famous for what?
Correct : D. pearls
46. Where did the third Sangam held?
Correct : C. madurai
47. Which is the premier Chola port?
Correct : C. kaveripoompatanam
48. Who said the early historical urbanism in the far south was induced by Indo-Roman trade and
intra regional trade?
Correct : C. chembakalakshimi.
49. Who were gadhika ?
Correct : B. perfumers
50. What is known as nikama?
Correct : B. merchant guild in tailakam
51. What is meant by kaviti?
Correct : A. honorific title given to merchants
52. Who is jethaka or pamukkha?
Correct : C. head of a craft person’s guild
53. Who is a sarthavaha?
Correct : A. heads of caravan merchants
54. Who is hiranyaswami?
Correct : A. issuer of coined money
55. Which inscription mentioned the migration of guilds?
Correct : A. mandasor inscription
56. Name the ancient port on the Eastern Coast of India?
Correct : A. tamralipti
57. Which among the following was not mentioned by the Periplus?
Correct : D. calicut
58. Where does Ratnadwipa situate?
Correct : A. srilanka
59. Which poem of Pattupattu describes Kaveripattinam?
Correct : B. pattinapalai
60. The port on the mouth of River Narmada?
Correct : C. baryagaza
61. What is not right about Periplus Maris Erythraei?
Correct : B. written in greek b. information on trade in indian ocean
62. Which Roman author describes the drain of Roman gold to India?
Correct : A. pliny
63. What is called aurei?
Correct : B. roman gold coins
64. Name the region which is not associated with the Roman coins?
Correct : D. ujjain
65. Which historian identified Arikamedu with Poduke?
a.R. S.Sharma b. Mortimer Wheeler c. P.Berghaus d. 73. Which place in South India is associated with Roman contact ?
Correct : B. pulicat
66. Name the place in south India which catered a well established Roman settlement?
Correct : D. arikamedu
67. With which country the terms amphorae and terra sigillata are associated?
Correct : D. romans
68. Which historian argued the involvement of Buddhist monks in trade on trade routes?
Correct : C. liu
69. Who is supposed to have composed the Sangam work agatiyam?
Correct : B. agastya
70. Which Hindu god is known as Haladhara?
Correct : B. balarama
71. Which goddess is frequently depicted on coins?
Correct : B. lakshmi
72. What is not right about the Gupta coins?
Correct : D. copper coins issued in abundance
73. With which Gupta ruler that Aswamedha type coins are associated?
Correct : B. samudragupta.
74. Which Gupta ruler is mentioned by name Chandra in his coins?
Correct : A. chandragupta ii
75. Which Gupta ruler’s digvijaya is mentioned in Udayagiri Cave Inscription?
Correct : C. chandragupta ii
76. Whose military expeditions are described in the Mehruali Pillar inscription?
Correct : D. chandragupta ii
77. Which Guptaruler’s coins bore the image of the god Kartikeya?
Correct : A. kumaragupta
78. Which historian argued that the Gupta and post Gupta periods saw decline in the money
economy?
Correct : A. r.s.sharma
79. Which is not an official of the nadu under the Cholas?
Correct : D. velan
80. Which Chola ruler initiated land survey and assessment?
Correct : A. rajarajai
81. What is called Shri-karanam?
Correct : A. revenue department
82. What is meant by vetti?
Correct : D. forced labour
83. What is not related to land revenue?
Correct : D. udaiyan
84. What is true about nagaram in south India?
Correct : D. all of the above
85. What is called saliya nagaram?
Correct : A. nagaram associated with textile trades
86. What is called shankarappadi nagaram?
Correct : A. nagarams of oil and ghee suppliers
87. What is called paraga nagaram?
Correct : A. suppliers of seafaring merchants
88. What is called angadis?
Correct : A. market
89. Which city was an ancient cotton growing area in South India?
Correct : A. kanchipuram
90. Who was the Chola emperor transformed Tanjavur a royal temple city?
Correct : D. rajaraja i
91. Where did the palace complex of the Cholas locate?
Correct : A. palaiyarai
92. Where did the Chola mint locate ?
Correct : C. kudamukku
93. Which city is mentioned as managaram?
Correct : A. kanchipuram
94. Samaya pattagara, saliya samangal & seniya pattagara are related to---- a. guild of ghee merchants b. guild of oil merchants c. weavers’ guild d. guild of precious stones
105.What is called tari kadamai?
Correct : C. irrigation tax
95. Which Chola ruler is known as sungam tavirta cholan?
Correct : C. kulottunga
96. What is called samaya?
Correct : A. guild
97. To which Chola king that Khemer king sent gift?
Correct : D. rajendra i
98. Which Chola king sent a trade mission to China in 1015?
Correct : D. rajaraja chola
99. What is known as Ayyavole?
Correct : C. trade guild
100. Which guild is originally established in Aihole in Karnataka?