PAKISTAN AND AFGHAN ARCH

Question 1

reflects the CULTURAL DIVERSITY and CONTRAST the country has experienced through the ages.
The rich past is depicted in the wide range of architectural buildings which utilize
a unique blend of artistic inspiration, design, materials, craftmanship and
construction.
* Intertwined with the architecture of broader Indian Subcontinent.

Answer 1

PAKISTAN AND AFGHAN ARCH

Question 2

-LAYOUT IN GRID SYSTEMS.
-CITADELS
-LARGE POOLS FOR RITUAL BATHING, GRANARIES, COMPLEX SYSTEM OF COVERED
DRAINS AND SEWERS.

Answer 2

HARAPPAN ARCHITECTURE

Question 3

AN ANCIENT
KINGDOM LOCATED
IN NORTHERN
PAKISTAN AND
EASTERN
AFGHANISTAN

Answer 3

GANDHARA CIVILIZATION

Question 4

THE PRINCESS NAMED GANDHARI WAS MARRIED TO HASTINAPUR’S BLIND KING DHRITRASHTRA,

Answer 4

MAHABHARATA ERA

Question 5

CYRUS THE GREAT BUILT FIRST THE “UNIVERSAL” EMPIRE, STRETCHING FROM GREECE TO THE INDUS RIVER.

Answer 5

RULE OF CYRUS

Question 6

ISSUANCE OF COIN CURRENCY
GREAT USE OF IRON TECHNOLOGY
THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY OF THE WORLS WAS FOUNDED AT TAXILA.

Answer 6

PERSIAN EMPIRES

Question 7

-ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONQUERED GANDHARA AND THE INDIAN TERRITORIES OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
-HE WAS WELCOMED BY THE LOCAL KING AMBHI IN HIS PALACE AT TAXILA.
-THE ERA LASTED FOR 25 YEARS,.

Answer 7

ALEXANDER CONQUEST

Question 8

• CHANDRAGUPTA, THE FOUNDER OF MAURYAN DYNASTY IS SAID TO HAVE LIVED IN TAXILA WHEN ALEXANDER CAPTURED THIS CITY.
  -HE LED A REBELION AND ASCENDED THE THRONE.

Answer 8

MAURYAN DYNASTY

Question 9

HE INTRODUCED BUDDHISM IN GANDHARA AND BUILT THE FIRST BUDDHIST MONASTERY, CALLED
DHARMARAJIKA VIHARA.

Answer 9

RULE OF ASHOKA UNDER MAURYAN DYNASTY

Question 10

-THE HEPTHALITE HUNS CAPTURED GANDHARA
, HINDUISM WAS REVIVED BUT THE GANDHARAN CIVILIZATION DECLINED.

Answer 10

WHITE HUNS AND NEZAK

Question 11

JAYAPALA, THE LAST GREAT KING, EXTENDED HIS EMPIRE FROM WEST KABUL TO THE RIVER OF STULEJ.
-ANANDAPALA, HIS SON, MOVED HIS CAPITAL NEAR NANDANA.
-TRILOCANAPALA, WAS ASSASSINATED BY HIS OWN TROOPS WHICH SPELLED THE END OF
GANDHARA

Answer 11

HINDUSHAHI

Question 12

FIRST BUDDHIST MONASTERY

Answer 12

DHARMARAJIKA VIHARA

Question 13

FOUNDER OF MAURYAN DYNASTY THAT LED A REBELION

Answer 13

CHANDRAGUPTA

Question 14

WHERE THE OLDEST UNIVERSITY WAS FOUNDED

Answer 14

TAXILA

Question 15

HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY HIS OWN TROOPS

Answer 15

TRILOCANAPALA

Question 16

LATE GREAT KING (HINDUSHAHI)

Answer 16

JAYAPALA

Question 17

SON OF JAYAPALA

Answer 17

ANANDAPALA

Question 18

ART OF PAKISTAN AND AFGHAM

Answer 18

• EARLIEST IMAGES OF BUDDHA.
• INFLUENCED HELLENESTIC ART

Question 19

-GANDHARA’S LANGUAGE

Answer 19

MIDDLE INDO-ARYAN DIALECT

Question 20

ARCHITECTURE (ART OF THE GANDHARAN BUDDHIST)

Answer 20

A FUSION OF GRECO-ROMAN, IRANIAN AND INDIAN STYLE

Question 21

remains in Sirkap. There are three
panels separated by Corinthian wall columns with shoots of Acanthus decorations on the wall of either side of the stairs in front of the square platform

Answer 21

“Double-Headed Eagle Stupa

Question 22

PERSIAN AND
GREEK INFLUENCED LED
TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF…

Answer 22

GRECO-BUDDHIST STYLE

Question 22

PERSIAN AND
GREEK INFLUENCED LED
TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF…

Answer 22

GRECO-BUDDHIST STYLE

Question 23

THE STATUES REPRESENTED A LATER EVOLUTION OF THE
CLASSIC BLENDED STYLE OF ANCIENT ART IN AFGHANISTAN

Answer 23

BUDDHAS OF BAMIYAN

Question 24

(“LIGHT SHINES THROUGH THE UNIVERSE”),
THE MALE

Answer 24

SALSAL

Question 25

A (“Queen Mother”), THE FEMALE

Answer 25

SHAHMAMA