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Slice the stone age wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Hunter or farmerRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the stone agesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Stone age bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Who deciphered the Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts in the 1830s?Read the answer and worked solution →Most early inscriptions referred to a king as Piyadassi, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →Early Buddhist and Jaina texts mention how many mahajanapadas?Read the answer and worked solution →Mahajanapadas where power was shared by a number of men called rajas were known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Magadha's iron mines lay in present-day:Read the answer and worked solution →The ambitious Magadhan kings best known from Buddhist and Jaina texts include Bimbisara, Ajatasattu and:Read the answer and worked solution →In the fourth century BCE the capital of Magadha shifted from Rajagaha to:Read the answer and worked solution →Asokan inscriptions in Afghanistan used which scripts?Read the answer and worked solution →Chandragupta Maurya founded the Mauryan Empire in about:Read the answer and worked solution →Asoka conquered Kalinga, which is present-day coastal:Read the answer and worked solution →Megasthenes was a Greek ambassador at the court of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Arthashastra is traditionally attributed to:Read the answer and worked solution →Besides the capital Pataliputra, the Mauryan provincial centres were Taxila, Ujjayini, Tosali and:Read the answer and worked solution →Megasthenes describes a military committee with how many subcommittees?Read the answer and worked solution →Special officers appointed by Asoka to spread dhamma were the:Read the answer and worked solution →The Mauryan Empire lasted about:Read the answer and worked solution →The ancient Tamil country of the Cholas, Cheras and Pandyas was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Kushana rulers adopted the title devaputra, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →The Prayaga Prashasti praising Samudragupta was composed by:Read the answer and worked solution →The Sudarshana lake in Gujarat is known from a rock inscription of the Shaka ruler:Read the answer and worked solution →Paddy production in the Ganga valley rose dramatically through:Read the answer and worked solution →Greek sources credit the Mauryan ruler with a standing army of how many foot-soldiers?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the mahajanapadasRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Mauryan wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Mauryan ageRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the stone age words

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Ledger
  3. Piston
  4. Sonnet
Matches the category
  1. Microlith
  2. Neolithic
  3. Pit-house
  4. Hearth
  5. Mortar
Instructions
Slice only the stone age words. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 2, From Hunting-Gathering to Growing Food._

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Hunter or farmer

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Upper category
Hunter
Lower category
Farmer
Items
  1. Category
    Hunter
    Item
    Bhimbetka
  2. Category
    Hunter
    Item
    Kurnool
  3. Category
    Hunter
    Item
    Microlith
  4. Category
    Hunter
    Item
    Rock art
  5. Category
    Farmer
    Item
    Burzahom
  6. Category
    Farmer
    Item
    Mehrgarh
  7. Category
    Farmer
    Item
    Clay pot
  8. Category
    Farmer
    Item
    Cotton
Instructions
Send each clue to the hunter-gatherer track or the farmer track.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 2, From Hunting-Gathering to Growing Food._

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Sort the stone ages

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Items
  1. Group
    Palaeolithic
    Item
    Old stone
  2. Group
    Palaeolithic
    Item
    2 million ago
  3. Group
    Palaeolithic
    Item
    Bhimbetka
  4. Group
    Mesolithic
    Item
    Microlith
  5. Group
    Mesolithic
    Item
    12,000 ago
  6. Group
    Mesolithic
    Item
    Grassland
  7. Group
    Neolithic
    Item
    Polished tool
  8. Group
    Neolithic
    Item
    Pit-house
  9. Group
    Neolithic
    Item
    Mehrgarh
Groups
  1. Item
    Palaeolithic
  2. Item
    Mesolithic
  3. Item
    Neolithic
Instructions
Drop each clue onto the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic or Neolithic.
_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 2, From Hunting-Gathering to Growing Food._

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