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Slice the Jaina vowsRead the answer and worked solution →Buddhist or JainaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the three basketsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Beliefs and buildings bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Mesopotamia, the land between the Euphrates and Tigris, lies mostly in which modern country?Read the answer and worked solution →The word Mesopotamia comes from Greek words meaning what?Read the answer and worked solution →The urbanised south of Mesopotamia in early recorded history was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Sumerian, the first known language of Mesopotamia, was replaced by which language around 2400 BCE?Read the answer and worked solution →Archaeology in Mesopotamia began in which decade?Read the answer and worked solution →Agriculture in the north-eastern Mesopotamian plains began between which dates?Read the answer and worked solution →The first Mesopotamian tablets, written around 3200 BCE, recorded what?Read the answer and worked solution →The wedge-shaped Mesopotamian script is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Cuneiform writing in Akkadian remained in use until when?Read the answer and worked solution →Which early ruler of Uruk is linked in an epic to the first trade and the invention of writing?Read the answer and worked solution →Around 3000 BCE Uruk grew to about 250 hectares. How did this compare with Mohenjo-daro?Read the answer and worked solution →Mesopotamian seals differed from Indian stamp seals in what way?Read the answer and worked solution →Ur's ordinary houses were dug up in the 1930s. Which feature of Mohenjo-daro did Ur lack?Read the answer and worked solution →The kings of Mari belonged to which people and raised a temple to Dagan, god of the steppe?Read the answer and worked solution →The palace at Mari belonged to which king who ruled 1810-1760 BCE?Read the answer and worked solution →The Gilgamesh Epic was written on how many tablets?Read the answer and worked solution →Dividing the day into 24 hours and the hour into 60 minutes came to us from whom?Read the answer and worked solution →The Assyrian empire was at its height between which years?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Assyrian king collected a library of some 30,000 tablets at Nineveh?Read the answer and worked solution →Who freed Babylonia from Assyrian domination in 625 BCE?Read the answer and worked solution →The Achaemenids of Iran conquered Babylon in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Nabonidus repaired a broken statue inscribed with the name of which king of Akkad?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Mesopotamian citiesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Mesopotamian kingsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Mesopotamian datesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the Jaina vows

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Does not match the category
  1. Walking
  2. Reading
  3. Fasting
  4. Singing
Matches the category
  1. Killing
  2. Stealing
  3. Lying
  4. Property
  5. Sex
Instructions
Slice only what Jaina monks vowed to abstain from.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part I, Theme 4, Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings: Cultural Developments._

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Buddhist or Jaina

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Upper category
Buddhist
Lower category
Jaina
Items
  1. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Tipitaka
  2. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Sangha
  3. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Nibbana
  4. Category
    Buddhist
    Item
    Sakya
  5. Category
    Jaina
    Item
    Tirthankar
  6. Category
    Jaina
    Item
    Mahavira
  7. Category
    Jaina
    Item
    Ahimsa
  8. Category
    Jaina
    Item
    Kamalavati
Instructions
Send each term to Buddhism or Jainism.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part I, Theme 4, Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings: Cultural Developments._

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Sort the three baskets

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Items
  1. Group
    Vinaya
    Item
    Monk rules
  2. Group
    Vinaya
    Item
    Sangha code
  3. Group
    Sutta
    Item
    Teachings
  4. Group
    Sutta
    Item
    Therigatha
  5. Group
    Abhidhamma
    Item
    Philosophy
  6. Group
    Abhidhamma
    Item
    Metaphysics
Groups
  1. Item
    Vinaya
  2. Item
    Sutta
  3. Item
    Abhidhamma
Instructions
Drop each description onto its Pitaka.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History Part I, Theme 4, Thinkers, Beliefs and Buildings: Cultural Developments._

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