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Slice the village and town wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Village or cityRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the terms by regionRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Villages and towns bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The oldest Veda, composed about 3500 years ago, is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Rigvedic hymns are called sukta, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Rigveda, Agni is the god of:Read the answer and worked solution →The hymns of the Rigveda were composed by sages known as:Read the answer and worked solution →The Rigveda is written in:Read the answer and worked solution →Sanskrit belongs to which family of languages?Read the answer and worked solution →Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam belong to which language family?Read the answer and worked solution →A Rigvedic hymn records sage Vishvamitra in dialogue with which two rivers?Read the answer and worked solution →The birch bark manuscript of the Rigveda used for early printed texts was found in:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Rigveda, the Ganga and Yamuna are named how many times?Read the answer and worked solution →Rigvedic battles fought with horse-drawn chariots were mainly to capture:Read the answer and worked solution →Sacrifices in which offerings of ghee, grain and animals were made into the fire were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Rigvedic rajas were unlike later kings because they:Read the answer and worked solution →Composers of the hymns called themselves Aryas and their opponents:Read the answer and worked solution →Later, the word dasa came to mean:Read the answer and worked solution →Large stone boulders arranged to mark burial sites are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The practice of erecting megaliths began about how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →The distinctive pots found in megalithic burials are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Tools and weapons in megalithic burials were mostly of:Read the answer and worked solution →At Brahmagiri one skeleton was buried with how many gold beads?Read the answer and worked solution →Inamgaon lies on the river Ghod, a tributary of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Early Chinese writing about 3500 years ago was on animal bones called:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Rigvedic wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the megalith wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Vedic ageRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the village and town words

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Sonnet
  3. Fresco
  4. Nebula
Matches the category
  1. Vellalar
  2. Uzhavar
  3. Shreni
  4. Jataka
  5. Ring well
Instructions
Slice only the words of early villages and towns. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 8, Vital Villages, Thriving Towns._

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Village or city

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Upper category
Village
Lower category
City
Items
  1. Category
    Village
    Item
    Bhojaka
  2. Category
    Village
    Item
    Grihapati
  3. Category
    Village
    Item
    Uzhavar
  4. Category
    Village
    Item
    Dasa
  5. Category
    City
    Item
    Ring well
  6. Category
    City
    Item
    NBPW
  7. Category
    City
    Item
    Shreni
  8. Category
    City
    Item
    Barygaza
Instructions
Send each clue to the village track or the city track.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 8, Vital Villages, Thriving Towns._

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Sort the terms by region

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Items
  1. Group
    Tamil
    Item
    Vellalar
  2. Group
    Tamil
    Item
    Uzhavar
  3. Group
    Tamil
    Item
    Adimai
  4. Group
    North
    Item
    Bhojaka
  5. Group
    North
    Item
    Grihapati
  6. Group
    North
    Item
    Karmakara
  7. Group
    Roman
    Item
    Amphorae
  8. Group
    Roman
    Item
    Arretine
  9. Group
    Roman
    Item
    Augustus
Groups
  1. Item
    Tamil
  2. Item
    North
  3. Item
    Roman
Instructions
Drop each term onto the Tamil south, north India or the Roman world.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 8, Vital Villages, Thriving Towns._

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