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2. The capital of Dantidurga was established in
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1)The word 'democracy' has its origins in the Greek language. It combines two shorter words: 'demos' meaning whole citizen living within a particular city-state and 'kratos' meaning power or rule.
1a : government by the people especially : rule of the majority. b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2)Dantidurga (735–756 CE), also known as Dantivarman or Dantidurga II was the founder of the Rashtrakuta Empire of Manyakheta. His capital was based in Gulbarga region of Karnataka.Dantidurga, in the mid-eighth century, overthrew his Chalukya overlord and performed a ritual known as 'hiranya-garbha'. It was thought to lead to the rebirth of the sacrificer as a kshatriya, even if he was not one by birth.
3)The lithosphere is the solid, outer part of the Earth. The lithosphere includes the brittle upper portion of the mantle and the crust, the outermost layers of Earth's structure. It is bounded by the atmosphere above and the asthenosphere (another part of the upper mantle) .
Lithosphere The solid part of the earth. It consists of three main layers: crust, mantle and core.
The drawing begins at the earth's surface (sea level) and descends about 150 kilometers down. There are several layers shown, color coded brown and black, green, and reddish. The outermost brown and black layer, above the Moho (boundary between crust and mantle) is the crust.