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Vital Villages, Thriving Towns

Question:

How can you say that Mathura was a religious place?

Answer:

One could find Buddhist monasteries and Jaina shrines in Mathura. Mathura was also a place where Lord Krishna was worshipped by the people.

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Vital Villages, Thriving Towns

Q 1.

Describe severed ways offinding out about early cities. [V. Imp.]

Q 2.

What do you know about Jatakas?

Q 3.

List the crafts persons who would have been present in both villages and cities.

Q 4.

If you have seen crafts persons at work, describe in a short paragraph what they do.
[Hint. How do they get the raw materials, what kind of equipment do they use, how do they work, what happens to the finished product.]

Q 5.

Mention the occupations of people who lived in Mathura

Q 6.

What do you know about punch marked coins?

Q 7.

Fill in the blanks:                                                                                                                                                         ,
(a)……. was a word used for large landowners in TamiL
(b)The gramabhojaka' often got his land cultivated by the…………………..
(c)Ploughmen were known as ………….. in Tamil                                                                                                       .
(d)Most grihapatis' were………….

Q 8.

Where were some of the largest collections of iron tools found?

Q 9.

What do you know about Arikamedu?

Q 10.

How can you say that Mathura was a religious place?

Q 11.

What was the use of iron tools?

Q 12.

How did people use ring wells?

Q 13.

Compare the drainage system in your locality with that of the cities mentioned in the lesson. What similarities and differences do you notice?

Q 14.

How did the dasa karmakara earn a living?

Q 15.

What were ring wells?

Q 16.

How luos wealth measured during early times?

Q 17.

List (he Junctions performed by men and women who live in your city and village. In what ways are these similar to those performed by people who lived in Mathura? In what ways are they different?

Q 18.

Describe the Junctions of the gramabhojaka'. Why do you think he was powerful?

Q 19.

What do you know about Sangam literature? [V. Imp.]

Q 20.

What steps were taken to increase agricultural production?   [V. Imp.]

Q 21.

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words to complete each sentence.
(i) The post of gram bhojaka was …………….
(ii)There were independent farmers also who were known as ……………………
(iii)……. literature was popular in Tamil Nadu.
(iv) The Jatakas were stories preserved by …………………
(v) The associations of crafts persons and merchants were known as ……………………….
(vi) Stamped red-glazed pottery was known as ……………….  ware.

Q 22.

Why were Varanasi and Madurai famous?

Q 23.

What did irrigation works include?

Q 24.

State whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F).
(i) The ploughshare was used to increase agricultural production.
(ii)Most of the grihpatis were large landowners.
(iii)Extremely fine pottery was found in the southern part of the sub-continent,
(iv) Shrenis also served as banks where rich men and women deposited money,
(v) Arretine Ware was named after a city in Germany.

Q 25.

Mention any one function that was performed by the grama bhojaka

Q 26.

What kind of information do we get from several inscriptions found in Mathura?

Q 27.

Write a short note on Arikamedu.

Q 28.

Mathura was a city with many Junctions. Explain. [V. Imp.]

Q 29.

What were shrenis? What functions did shrenis of crafts persons perform?[Imp.]

Q 30.

Who was the grama bhojaka? Write about him in brief.