The confederacy adopted the "stars and stripes" as its national flag. true false

The statement is true. The "Stars and Bars" was the official flag of the Confederation from March 5, 1861 to May 1863. Different variants appear successively with seven, nine, eleven and thirteen stars in connection with the number of states that joined the Confederation at each time. It is said that the Confederate flag have been inspired by the Babenberg flag of Austria from which the designer Nicola Marschall's family was born.

The gupta empire was an india empire that existed between the 3rd century ce to 590 ce, they were traditional hindu, but governers didn't force hinduism to their population which enabled the spread of other religions, especially the buddhist religion.