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UPSC CDS Indian History Timeline — practice questions — page 30

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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 →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 →

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The Rigveda is written in:

  1. Pali language
  2. Tamil language
  3. Vedic Sanskrit
  4. Ancient Prakrit
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Correct answer: C. Vedic Sanskrit

1. It differs from the Sanskrit taught today. 2. The language is old or Vedic Sanskrit. 3. It was recited and heard rather than read. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 4, What Books and Burials Tell Us._

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Sanskrit belongs to which family of languages?

  1. Dravidian group
  2. Austro-Asiatic
  3. Tibeto-Burman
  4. Indo-European
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Correct answer: D. Indo-European

1. Hindi, Persian, English and Greek belong to the same family. 2. Sanskrit is Indo-European. 3. Family members originally shared words. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 4, What Books and Burials Tell Us._

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Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam belong to which language family?

  1. Dravidian group
  2. Indo-European
  3. Austro-Asiatic
  4. Tibeto-Burman
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Correct answer: A. Dravidian group

1. North-eastern languages are Tibeto-Burman. 2. The four southern languages are Dravidian. 3. Jharkhand languages are Austro-Asiatic. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 4, What Books and Burials Tell Us._

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