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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 →Slice the Vedic wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Rigveda or megalithRead the answer and worked solution →Sort gods, people and burialsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Books and burials bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The earliest people known in the subcontinent lived as early as:Read the answer and worked solution →Hunter-gatherers moved from place to place partly because many rivers and lakes are:Read the answer and worked solution →Bhimbetka, a site with caves and rock shelters, lies close to which river valley?Read the answer and worked solution →Traces of ash showing early use of fire were found at:Read the answer and worked solution →The word Palaeolithic comes from Greek words meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →The Palaeolithic period extends from 2 million years ago to about:Read the answer and worked solution →The Palaeolithic covers what share of human history?Read the answer and worked solution →The tiny stone tools of the Mesolithic are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Around 12,000 years ago a shift to warmer climate led to the development of:Read the answer and worked solution →The first animal to be tamed was the wild ancestor of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Domestication of plants and animals began about how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Sacrifices in which offerings of ghee, grain and animals were made into the fire were called:

  1. Dasas
  2. Yajnas
  3. Suktas
  4. Janas
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Correct answer: B. Yajnas

1. They were meant for gods and goddesses. 2. They were yajnas. 3. Some captured wealth funded them. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 4, What Books and Burials Tell Us._

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Rigvedic rajas were unlike later kings because they:

  1. Led huge armies
  2. Built palaces
  3. Collected no taxes
  4. Ruled from forts
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Correct answer: C. Collected no taxes

1. They had no capital cities or palaces. 2. They did not collect taxes. 3. Sons did not automatically succeed fathers. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 4, What Books and Burials Tell Us._

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Composers of the hymns called themselves Aryas and their opponents:

  1. Rajas
  2. Janas
  3. Rishis
  4. Dasas
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Correct answer: D. Dasas

1. Opponents did not perform sacrifices. 2. They were called Dasas or Dasyus. 3. They probably spoke different languages. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 4, What Books and Burials Tell Us._

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