Question

Taxila and madurai were important centres under the control of gupta empires.
A)True
B)False

Answer 1

Hint: 1)It was an ancient empire that existed from the 3rd century to 6th century.
2)Gupta period is regarded as the golden age of india.
3)It covered an area which in present day covers pakistan,bangladesh,myanmar,afghanistan.

Complete answer:
1)The capital city of guptas was pataliputra.
2)Sanskrit and prakrit are the common language used by the people during this period.
3)The Religion followed by the Gupta rulers were Hinduism,Jainism,buddhism.
4)Many epics like mahabharat,ramayan are also composed during this time.
5)Many Temples were also developed during this period like in etah, sanchi, dashavatar temple, mahabodhi temple etc.
6)The most important monument, the cave architecture was also built during this time like in Ajanta ,Ellora .
7)Some important centres during the Gupta period are muziris, arikamedu, kaveripatnam ,taxila.

Taxila- the gupta occupied the territories of taxila .This was important for being trade links including silk.sandalwood etc.
it has references in many indian and greco -roman literary sources..
According to epic Ramayana,(by bharata) the city was named after Bharat's son taksha.
buddhist jatakas also mentioned it as the capital of gandhara kingdom.

Madurai-it was ruled by pandya kings and capital city of pandyan kings.
It is also called as the cultural city of tamil nadu.
it is situated on the banks of river vaigai and was an important ruling place of many southindian kingdoms.

Option A true is not correct as madurai was under pandyan rulers.
Option B false is correct as madurai was not part of guptas territorial cover.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B)

Note: 1)The Gupta empire was founded by Sri Gupta .
2)Most notable ruler of gupta period was chandragupta 1
3)The kalidasa poet credited the guptas for conquering 21 kingdoms.
4)Taxila was designated as a UNESCO heritage site in 1980.