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Slice the early society wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Maurya or GuptaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort rulers, texts and placesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Early states bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The Harshacharita, a biography of Harshavardhana of Kanauj, was composed by:Read the answer and worked solution →Most surviving early land grant inscriptions were engraved on:Read the answer and worked solution →Prabhavati Gupta, who granted the village of Danguna, was the daughter of:Read the answer and worked solution →Prabhavati Gupta was married into which ruling family of the Deccan?Read the answer and worked solution →Land granted to a Brahmana, usually free of land revenue, was called an:Read the answer and worked solution →Some historians read land grants as a sign of:Read the answer and worked solution →Pataliputra began as a village known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Chinese pilgrim found Pataliputra in ruins in the seventh century CE?Read the answer and worked solution →Which early city lay near the coast where sea routes began?Read the answer and worked solution →The glossy fine pottery of early cities, probably used by the rich, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Guilds of craft producers and merchants in early towns were called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea was composed by:Read the answer and worked solution →The Periplus lists pepper and malabathrum as exports of the Malabar coast. Malabathrum was possibly:Read the answer and worked solution →Successful merchants were called masattuvan in Tamil and, in Prakrit:Read the answer and worked solution →The earliest coins minted in the subcontinent, from about the sixth century BCE, were:Read the answer and worked solution →The first coins bearing names and images of rulers were issued by the:Read the answer and worked solution →The first gold coins in the subcontinent, about the first century CE, were issued by the:Read the answer and worked solution →Several thousand copper coins were issued by which tribal republic of Punjab and Haryana?Read the answer and worked solution →Finds of gold coins taper off from about the:Read the answer and worked solution →Evidence of a bead-making industry using precious stones was found at:Read the answer and worked solution →James Prinsep deciphered Asokan Brahmi in:Read the answer and worked solution →Kharosthi was read by comparing letters with Greek on the coins of which rulers?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the coin issuersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the trade wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the coins and scriptsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the early society words

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Ledger
  3. Piston
  4. Nebula
Matches the category
  1. Dhamma
  2. Gahapati
  3. Vellalar
  4. Uzhavar
  5. Adimai
Instructions
Slice only the words of early Indian society. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History I, Theme 2, Kings, Farmers and Towns._

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Maurya or Gupta

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Upper category
Maurya
Lower category
Gupta
Items
  1. Category
    Maurya
    Item
    Asoka
  2. Category
    Maurya
    Item
    Kautilya
  3. Category
    Maurya
    Item
    Dhamma
  4. Category
    Maurya
    Item
    Taxila
  5. Category
    Gupta
    Item
    Harishena
  6. Category
    Gupta
    Item
    Prayaga
  7. Category
    Gupta
    Item
    Samanta
  8. Category
    Gupta
    Item
    Prashasti
Instructions
Send each clue to the Mauryan track or the Gupta track.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History I, Theme 2, Kings, Farmers and Towns._

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Sort rulers, texts and places

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Items
  1. Group
    Ruler
    Item
    Asoka
  2. Group
    Ruler
    Item
    Bimbisara
  3. Group
    Ruler
    Item
    Kanishka
  4. Group
    Text
    Item
    Arthashastra
  5. Group
    Text
    Item
    Jataka
  6. Group
    Text
    Item
    Manusmriti
  7. Group
    Place
    Item
    Rajagaha
  8. Group
    Place
    Item
    Taxila
  9. Group
    Place
    Item
    Tosali
Groups
  1. Item
    Ruler
  2. Item
    Text
  3. Item
    Place
Instructions
Drop each clue onto ruler, text or place.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History I, Theme 2, Kings, Farmers and Towns._

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