Question

D. Answer in one or two sentences
1. What does the term mahajanapada mean?
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Answer 1

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Explanation:

The places where people placed their foot or where the tribe placed its foothold came to be known as Janapada. Such Janapadas were known according to the tribes that had settled there.

Answer 2

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The Mahajanapadas (Sanskrit: great realm, from maha, "great", and janapada "foothold of a people") were sixteen kingdoms or oligarchic republics that existed in Northern ancient India from the sixth to fourth centuries BCE during the second urbanisation period.