Call out each history term

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Ground sand or silica mixed with colour and a gum, then fired

   Item

   Faience

2. Clue

   Wet clay on a knotted bag, stamped so that tampering would show

   Item

   Sealing

3. Clue

   The study of inscriptions

   Item

   Epigraphy

4. Clue

   The study of coins, their images, scripts and metal

   Item

   Numismatics

5. Clue

   A guild of craft producers and merchants in a town

   Item

   Shreni

6. Clue

   Land granted to a Brahmana, usually free of land revenue

   Item

   Agrahara

7. Clue

   Owner and head of a household and of its land and workers

   Item

   Gahapati

8. Clue

   Travel account dictated in Arabic by the qazi from Morocco

   Item

   Rihla

9. Clue

   The horse post, with royal horses stationed every four miles

   Item

   Uluq

Instructions

Read each call, tap its term on the board. Three in a line is bingo.

Explanation