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The Great Bath, lined with bricks and sealed with natural tar, was built in the citadel of:Read the answer and worked solution →Fire altars where sacrifices may have been performed were found at Lothal and:Read the answer and worked solution →Harappan seal signs are the earliest known form of what in the subcontinent?Read the answer and worked solution →Harappan stone weights were made of:Read the answer and worked solution →Many Harappan beads were made of a beautiful red stone called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which artificially produced glazed material did Harappans use for beads and bangles?Read the answer and worked solution →Cotton was probably grown at Mehrgarh from about how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Harappans probably got copper from Rajasthan and from which West Asian land?Read the answer and worked solution →Tin, mixed with copper to make bronze, may have come from Iran and:Read the answer and worked solution →Gold for the Harappans could have come from present-day:Read the answer and worked solution →Unlike most Harappan cities, Dholavira was divided into:Read the answer and worked solution →Dholavira is located on Khadir Beyt in the:Read the answer and worked solution →Lothal stood beside a tributary of which river in Gujarat?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Harappan city had a huge tank that may have been a dockyard?Read the answer and worked solution →The impression of a seal pressed on wet clay is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →The decline of the Harappan cities began about how many years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →After the Harappan decline, new cities emerged about how many years later?Read the answer and worked solution →Most Harappan houses had which feature, often connected to street drains?Read the answer and worked solution →Harappan crops included wheat, barley, pulses, peas, rice, sesame, linseed and:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Harappan sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Harappan findsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the Harappan sourcesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the Harappan wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Citadel or lower townRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the metalsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Harappan bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Delhi first became the capital of a kingdom under which Rajput dynasty?Read the answer and worked solution →Coins minted at Delhi under the Tomaras and Chauhans were called:Read the answer and worked solution →Raziyya, daughter of Iltutmish, became Sultan in:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Great Bath, lined with bricks and sealed with natural tar, was built in the citadel of:

  1. Kalibangan
  2. Mohenjodaro
  3. Harappa city
  4. Lothal town
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Correct answer: B. Mohenjodaro

1. Steps led down from two sides. 2. The Great Bath is at Mohenjodaro. 3. Important people may have bathed there on special occasions. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 3, In the Earliest Cities._

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Fire altars where sacrifices may have been performed were found at Lothal and:

  1. Dholavira
  2. Harappa town
  3. Kalibangan
  4. Mohenjodaro
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Correct answer: C. Kalibangan

1. Different cities had special buildings. 2. Kalibangan and Lothal had fire altars. 3. Mohenjodaro, Harappa and Lothal had storehouses. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 3, In the Earliest Cities._

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Harappan seal signs are the earliest known form of what in the subcontinent?

  1. Painting
  2. Coinage
  3. Weaving
  4. Writing
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Correct answer: D. Writing

1. Scholars still cannot read them. 2. They are the earliest known writing. 3. Scribes prepared the seals. _Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 3, In the Earliest Cities._

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