Tag: history

Nahapana was an important ruler of the Western Kshatrapas, a descendant of the Indo-Scythians, in northwestern India, was a great conqueror, was said to have gained fame by being well versed in grammar, polity, logic, music furthermore he had taken a vow not to kill men except in battle. 

Kanishka conquered regions like Kashgar, Yarkand, and Khotan in the Tarim Basin. Kapisa was a region in the Hindu Kush, not conquered from China.

Sagala (modern Sialkot) was the capital of the Indo-Greek kingdom and was known as Euthydemia after the king Euthydemus.

Vima Kadphises, was a Kushan emperor from approximately 90–100 CE. He was the Kushan emperor to first introduce gold coinage, in addition to the existing copper and silver coinage.

Menander I, also known as Milinda, was a famous Indo-Greek king who ruled the Indo-Greek Kingdom and famously converted to Buddhism, as recorded in the Buddhist text Milinda Panha. The other options do not share this historical distinction regarding Buddhism.

• Hitler saw Jews as an inferior race. He wanted to destroy them as part of a conspiracy to take over the world.
• He ordered the boycott of many Jewish shops and passed a range of laws which were against the Jews.

• The Holocaust was the murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.
• Other than Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, mentally or physically disabled people were also killed in the Holocaust.

• The decision to drop the bomb on Japan was made by US President Harry Truman.
• He argued that the bombing would shorten the war, remove any need to invade Japan and so save the lives of thousands of American servicemen as well as Japanese civilians.