Question: What ruler ruled at the peak of Kadamba power?
Answer: King Kakushtavarma

Question: Who founded the Kamdamba dynasty?
Answer: Mayurasharma

Question: What dynasty made military alliances with the Kamdamba?
Answer: Gupta Dynasty

Question: What type of trib were the Hephthalites?
Answer: nomadic confederation

Question: Where did the White Huns roam?
Answer: Central Asia

Question: In what country did the White Huns settle?
Answer: Afghanistan

Question: What lands did the White Huns take in the 5th century? 
Answer: Pakistan and North India

Question: In which century did the Gupta Empire fall?
Answer: middle of the 6th century

Question: To what type of states did the former Gupta Empire revert?
Answer: small

Question: After uniting the area, what title was Harsha given?
Answer: Maharaja

Question: When was Harsha crowned by the states he united?
Answer: April 606

Question: To what religion had Harsha been converted?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: What declined from the 5th to the 13th centuries
Answer: Śrauta sacrifices

Question: What philosophical traditions developed during the period of the 5th to the 13th centuries?
Answer: Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism

Question: In what century was Harsha's rule? 
Answer: 7th century

Question: What happened to Harsha's empire after his death?
Answer: collapsed

Question: What area did Harsha unite during his reign?
Answer: northern India

Question: What cults weakened Buddhism in India?
Answer: Vishnu and Shiva

Question: What replaced Buddha in ruling centers?
Answer: Hindu gods

Question: What kind of temples were built for Hindu Gods?
Answer: monumental

Question: What was the style of worship of Hindu Gods?
Answer: elaborate

Question: By what dentury did Buddhism disappear form much of India?
Answer: eighth

Question: How many dynasties fought for control from the 8th to the 10th century?
Answer: three

Question: When did the first Rajput kingdoms emerge in India?
Answer: 6th century

Question: What Rajput ruler was known for his conflicts with the Turkic sultanates?
Answer: Prithvi Raj Chauhan

Question: In what century did the Chola Empire emerge?
Answer: 11th century

Question: Who was emperor of the Kashmiri  Karkota dynasty?
Answer: Lalitaditya Muktapida

Question: When did the Chalukya Empire rule?
Answer: 6th and the 12th centuries

Question: What portion of India did the Chalukya Empire rule?
Answer: southern and central

Question: What style of architecture developed during the Chaluka reigns? 
Answer: Chalukyan architecture

Question: When did the Chalukyans rule from Badami?
Answer: 550 and 750

Question: When was the second reign of Chalukyans?
Answer: 970 and 1190

Question: When was the Rastrakuta Empire started?
Answer: 753

Question: In what location was the capital of the Rashtrakuta Empire?
Answer: Manyakheta

Question: What was the faith of the early rulers of the Rastrakuta Empire?
Answer: Hindu

Question: By what were the later kings of the Rastrakuta Empire influenced?
Answer: Jainism

Question: What Rastrakuta king ruler for 64 years?
Answer: Amoghavarsha

Question: During what span of time did the Pala Empire thrive?
Answer: 750–1174 CE

Question: What style of belief system did the Pala Empire favor?
Answer: Buddhist

Question: What is the term used to describe the Pala Empire?
Answer: golden era of Bengal

Question: What educational center reached it height during the Pala rule?
Answer: Nalanda

Question: What ruler founded the Pala dynasty?
Answer: Gopala I

Question: What area did the Cholas unite in the 9th century?
Answer: South India

Question: What kind of power did the Chola dynasty become in south India?
Answer: military, economic and cultural

Question: In what area did the Chola Empire establish political unity?
Answer: whole of Southern India

Question: In what type of architecture did the Cholas excel? 
Answer: Monumental

Question: From their contacts and conquests in surrounding sea areas, what did this establish the Chola empire as? 
Answer: sea power

Question: During waht centuries did the Western Chalukya rule?
Answer: 10th and 12th

Question: What was the architectural style of the Chalukyas?
Answer: transitional

Question: Where did the Chalukyas build most of their monuments?
Answer: central Karnataka

Question: What did the Chalukya kings encourage writers to use?
Answer: native language

Question: Besides the language of Kannada, what other old language was used during the western Chalukya dynasty?
Answer: Sanskrit

Question: What group wanted to conquer India from earliest times?
Answer: Muslims

Question: What empire took over parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan in 720?
Answer: Arab Umayyad Caliphate

Question: Who was the final Hindu monarch of Sindh?
Answer: Raja Dahir

Question: What Arab leader completed the early ambitions of Arabs by conquering parts of northern India?
Answer: Muhammad bin Qasim

Question: How did the early Muslims view the possibility of conquering India? 
Answer: difficult

Question: In what year did Muslim general Muhammad bin Qasim take over most of the Indus area?
Answer: 712

Question: Who eventually defeated the Arabs at Rajasthan?
Answer: Hindu kings

Question: In what area did the Indian Kings contain the Arabs?
Answer: Sindh in Pakistan

Question: When was the Arab invasion repulsed?
Answer: early 8th century

Question: Where did the Arabs establish as the capital of the newly conquered territory?
Answer: Al-Mansurah

Question: In what areas of India were Islamic kingdoms formed over a period of centuries?
Answer: Afghanistan and Pakistan

Question: What Muslim endeavors thrived on the coastal areas of south India? 
Answer: trading communities

Question: Which south Indian coast was favored by Muslim traders?
Answer: western coast

Question: From where did the Arab traders come in order to trade on the west coast of India?
Answer: Arabian peninsula

Question: Besides the newly introduced Islamic religion, what other Abrahamic religions were practiced in India?
Answer: Judaism and Christianity

Question: Until what century did the Kabul Shahi dynasties rule the Kabul Valley?
Answer: 9th century

Question: The decline of what empire allowed the rule of the Kabul Shahi empire?
Answer: Kushan

Question: How many eras are the Shahis divided into?
Answer: two

Question: When did the Shahis switch from Buddhist to Hindu?
Answer: 870

Question: What was the kingdom of the Shahis called?
Answer: Kabul Shahan

Question: In what id Jayapala see a danger to his dynasty?
Answer: consolidation of the Ghaznavids

Question: What city did Jayapala invade at least twice?
Answer: Ghazni

Question: Who defeated Jayapala and required an indemnity payment?
Answer: Sebuk Tigin

Question: What part of the area did Jayapala lose?
Answer: Kabul Valley and Indus River

Question: What was Jayapala's response to the indemnity payment?
Answer: defaulted

Question: In what year was Jaipal again soundly defeated by the Muslims?
Answer: 1001

Question: Where was the location of the Shahi defeat by the Muslims?
Answer: Battle of Peshawar

Question: What was Jaipal action after his last defeat?
Answer: committed suicide

Question: Upon what did Jaipal's subjects think he brought disaster?
Answer: Shahi dynasty

Question: Who was the ruler of Ghazni?
Answer: Mahmud of Ghazni

Question: From where did raiders come to attack the agrarian Indians?
Answer: Central Asia

Question: After a history of raiding groups, what is not remarkable in the history of the subcontinent?
Answer: Muslim intrusions

Question: Before the Muslim invasions, what did previous invaders do in the local cultures?
Answer: assimilated

Question: What did the Muslim invaders staunchly keep after invading?
Answer: Islamic identity

Question: What type of new Indian culture was formed from this mixture of cultures?
Answer: mixed

Question: What conquered large areas of northern India?
Answer: Slave dynasty of Delhi