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title: Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · History
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 8 «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» of the history course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers

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The 15 questions of lesson 8 «Ancient India: Ashoka, zero and our numbers» of the history course of Mova's primary school with their options, 81 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/t1/) — Mate says they're Arabic numerals so the Arabs invented 'em. Fair? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/t2/) — Try writing one hundred and five with no zero sign. What problem do you hit? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/t3/) — Why is Ashoka's change of heart so famous? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/t4/) — In modern chess the bishop sits next to the knight. Which chaturanga piece once stood there? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/t5/) — If India had never invented zero as a number, what would be harder today? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/t6/) — Why did Roman ladies pay a lot for Indian pepper? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/t7/) — A cartoon says ancient Indians thought the Earth stood still. What did Aryabhata say? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/t8/) — Ashoka asked people to respect all religions. Why would that matter in India? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/t9/) — How did the Buddha's teaching get to Sri Lanka? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/t10/) — blah blah so the gupta age was like the dark ages for india right? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/t11/) — Chess went from India to Persia to Europe. What happened to it on the way? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/e1/) — Identify the ruler who, subsequent to the conquest of Kalinga, caused edicts enjoining kindness and religious tolerance to be inscribed upon pillars. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/e2/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the origin of the digits 0 to 9 employed at present. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the contribution of Aryabhata? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/e4/) — Ascertain the name of the early Indian game from which modern chess is descended. — wrong ✗ · exam

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