Question

D. Answer in one or two sentences.
1. What does the term mahajanapada mean?
2. Name any four of the sixteen mahajanapadas that existed in India in the 6th century BCE.
3. Why did the king need huge sums of money? How did he collect it?
4. Describe a punch-marked coin.
5. What did Bimbisara do to expand his kingdom?
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Answer 1

Answer:

1. The Mahājanapadas (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.
2. Kasi.
3. Kosala.
4. Anga.
5. Magadha.
6. Vajji.
7. Malla.
8. Chedi/Cheti.
9. Vatsa
10. Answer: Building a fort and maintaining an army involved lot of money. Taxes were the most ideal means to collect a large sum of money on a regular basis. So, the raja needed to collect taxes.
11. Punch-marked coins are a type of early coinage of India, dating to between about the 6th and 2nd centuries BC. The study of the relative chronology of these coins has successfully established that the first punch-marked coins initially only had one or two punches, with the number of punches increasing over time.
12. Bimbisara expanded and strengthened his empire through matrimonial alliances and conquest

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Answer 2

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