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Slice the new ideasRead the answer and worked solution →Buddhist or JainaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the teachersRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →New ideas bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Pepper from south India was so valued in the Roman Empire that it was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Evidence of Indo-Roman trade includes many Roman what found in south India?Read the answer and worked solution →The Tamil word muvendar in Sangam poems means:Read the answer and worked solution →The Cholas, Cheras and Pandyas became powerful in south India around how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Puhar or Kaveripattinam was the port of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Madurai was the capital of the:Read the answer and worked solution →The most important Satavahana ruler, known from his mother's inscription, was:Read the answer and worked solution →The Satavahana rulers were known as lords of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Techniques of making silk were first invented in China around how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →The best-known rulers who controlled the Silk Route around 2000 years ago were the:Read the answer and worked solution →The two major centres of Kushana power were Mathura and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Kushanas were among the earliest rulers of the subcontinent to issue:Read the answer and worked solution →The most famous Kushana ruler, who organised a Buddhist council about 1900 years ago, was:Read the answer and worked solution →Ashvaghosha, poet at Kanishka's court, wrote the Buddha's biography called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which new form of Buddhism, with Buddha statues and Bodhisattvas, developed around Kanishka's time?Read the answer and worked solution →Early Buddha statues were made in Mathura and:Read the answer and worked solution →The older form of Buddhism popular in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia was:Read the answer and worked solution →The Chinese pilgrim who came to the subcontinent about 1600 years ago was:Read the answer and worked solution →Xuan Zang came to India around how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Xuan Zang carried back over 600 manuscripts loaded on how many horses?Read the answer and worked solution →The idea of Bhakti is present in which sacred book included in the Mahabharata?Read the answer and worked solution →The Christians of Kerala, among the world's oldest Christian communities, are known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the southern powersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Kushana wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the years agoRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the new ideas

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Sonnet
  3. Fresco
  4. Nebula
Matches the category
  1. Tanha
  2. Karma
  3. Ahimsa
  4. Sangha
  5. Vihara
Instructions
Slice only the terms of the Buddha, Mahavira and the sangha. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 6, New Questions and Ideas._

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Buddhist or Jaina

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Upper category
Buddhist
Lower category
Jaina
Items
  1. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Sakya
  2. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Sarnath
  3. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Vinaya
  4. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Bhikkhu
  5. Category
    Jaina
    Item
    Mahavira
  6. Category
    Jaina
    Item
    Valabhi
  7. Category
    Jaina
    Item
    Lichchhavi
  8. Category
    Jaina
    Item
    Traders
Instructions
Send each clue to the Buddhist track or the Jaina track.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 6, New Questions and Ideas._

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Sort the teachers

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Items
  1. Group
    Buddha
    Item
    Bodh Gaya
  2. Group
    Buddha
    Item
    Tanha
  3. Group
    Buddha
    Item
    Kusinara
  4. Group
    Mahavira
    Item
    Ahimsa
  5. Group
    Mahavira
    Item
    Valabhi
  6. Group
    Mahavira
    Item
    24th
  7. Group
    Upanishad
    Item
    Atman
  8. Group
    Upanishad
    Item
    Brahman
  9. Group
    Upanishad
    Item
    Gargi
Groups
  1. Item
    Buddha
  2. Item
    Mahavira
  3. Item
    Upanishad
Instructions
Drop each clue onto the Buddha, Mahavira or the Upanishads.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 6, New Questions and Ideas._

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