Practice Test

Which of the following facts hold true about Harappan civilization and culture:
1. A high citadel some 50 ft above lower city with great bath and granaries at its foot marked by superblocks, lanes that run at right angles to streets.
2. Great Bath 39 ft long, 8 ft deep was brick fitted and sealed water-tight by bitumen. It was built for retaining monsoon rains.
3. Citadels, Great Bath and granary designs of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa were similar in all respects.
4. Flooding was common in those days and vital trade links existed between Harappa and Mesopotamia indicated by Persian Gulf seals and Harappan motifs found in the region.
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The primary purpose of a seal in the Indus Valley civilisation was probably

Assertion - Harsha became a great supporter of Buddhism and made general endowments to it.
Reason - Harsha was influenced by a Chinese pilgrim Huen Tsang who came to India to study at the Buddhist University of Nalanda and collect Buddhist texts from India.
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