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What does the word 'India' originate from?
What does the word 'India' originate from?
- The Iranians
- The Indus River (correct)
- The Greeks
- The Bharata group
Who were the Bharata?
Who were the Bharata?
- The Greeks who traveled through the northwest
- A group of people mentioned in the Rigveda (correct)
- The Iranians who were familiar with the Indus
- A river in India
What did the Iranians and Greeks call the land to the east of the river Indus?
What did the Iranians and Greeks call the land to the east of the river Indus?
- Bharat
- Sindhu
- Hindus
- India (correct)
When was the Rigveda, the earliest composition in Sanskrit, dated to?
When was the Rigveda, the earliest composition in Sanskrit, dated to?