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Kautilya used the law of fishes to argue why a state should do what?Read the answer and worked solution →What does Kautilya say happens to society without government or rule of law?Read the answer and worked solution →Which subject does the Arthashastra include among its details?Read the answer and worked solution →Ancient Western ideas of authority trace back to which civilisation?Read the answer and worked solution →Which philosophy rejects the legitimacy of political authority?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the name for a government that limits its own authority?Read the answer and worked solution →Max Weber saw legitimate authority as recognised by which parties?Read the answer and worked solution →In traditional authority, what is the leader's power largely tied to?Read the answer and worked solution →In rational-legal authority, where does legitimacy come from?Read the answer and worked solution →Which form of authority do most modern states of the 20th and 21st centuries fit?Read the answer and worked solution →Which administration form did Weber and Perrow call most efficient?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is another name for rational-legal authority?Read the answer and worked solution →What does charismatic authority derive from?Read the answer and worked solution →Through which writings did the word charisma reach early Christian communities?Read the answer and worked solution →What happens to charismatic authority if the leader is absent?Read the answer and worked solution →Which thinker developed social contract theory in Leviathan?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is counted among the five great elements of the Pañchamahābhūtas idea?Read the answer and worked solution →The Sanskrit phrase vasudhaiva kuṭumbakam stands for which idea?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many years ago was the Arthaśhāstra, attributed to Kauṭilya, composed?Read the answer and worked solution →Which one of these is NOT one of the four core disciplines of Social Science in Grades 9 and 10?Read the answer and worked solution →Which discipline studies the Earth, its environments and how people relate to their surroundings?Read the answer and worked solution →Which discipline helps us understand how societies change over time?Read the answer and worked solution →The study of constitutions and governments belongs to which discipline?Read the answer and worked solution →Which discipline deals with how societies use limited resources to meet their needs?Read the answer and worked solution →A historical source made of texts or records inscribed on stone or metal plates is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which historical source shows trade and rulers through its metal and symbols?Read the answer and worked solution →Monuments, excavated sites and artefacts are examples of which type of historical source?Read the answer and worked solution →Which scientific method do modern historians use to establish timelines of the past?Read the answer and worked solution →The itihāsa-purāṇa tradition of Bharat is best described as a way of doing what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which system in India's villages gives citizens a voice in local development planning?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Kautilya used the law of fishes to argue why a state should do what?

  1. Stay small and isolated
  2. Abolish all state armies
  3. Give up all treasuries
  4. Enhance its size and security
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Correct answer: D. Enhance its size and security

Without government the strong would prey on the weak, so Kautilya argued that a state must grow strong and secure.

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What does Kautilya say happens to society without government or rule of law?

  1. It becomes a republic
  2. It falls into anarchy
  3. It forms a democracy
  4. It grows much richer
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Correct answer: B. It falls into anarchy

Kautilya held that society would slide into anarchy, where the strong destroy the weak.

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Which subject does the Arthashastra include among its details?

  1. Deep-sea diving
  2. Cloud seeding
  3. Mining and metals
  4. Skyscraper design
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Correct answer: C. Mining and metals

The treatise includes details on mining and metals along with agriculture and mineralogy.

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