Medieval History Miscellaneous Test 18

1.The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama landed in ______ in the year 1498.

2.Which city was the capital of the French Colony in India?

3.Who among the following first deciphered the Brahmi script in 1837?

4.Who among the following was the founder of the Suryavamsi Gajapati dynasty that ruled parts of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh in the 15th century?

5.Who among the following is regarded as the founder of Aurangabad city?

6.Lal Ded, a female saint of the 14th century, was one of the earliest and best-known ______ poetesses.

7.Who among the following was the founder of the Bhakti sect named 'Pushtimarg'?

8.'Rang Ghar', one of Asia's oldest amphitheatres, was built by the king of the ___dynasty.

9.Which of the following was built by Muhammed Quli Qutub Shah?

10.Which of the following forts was built by the Kakatiya dynasty?

11. Badami was the earliest capital of the:

12.Vikramaditya VI, whose biography was composed by his court poet Bilhana, was a ruler of ______ dynasty.

13.To which of the following dynasties did Queen Rudramadevi belong?

14.Murshid Quli Khan was the Nawab of ______.

15.Which of the following monuments is located in the state of Karnataka?

16.Rani Rudrama Devi was a famous ruler of the ______ dynasty.

17.The Chalukya Dynasty ruled in Vatapi which is in the modern-day Indian state of ______.

18.Generally, In the Mughal provincial administration, generally, what was the meaning of Diwani?

19.Which of the following cities became the capital of Bahamani sultanate immediately after its foundation?

20.Which of the following texts gives the most detailed account of the history of Kashmir?

21. ______ was one of the first Indian rulers to lead an armed rebellion against the British East India Company in 1824 against the implementation of the Doctrine of Lapse.