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(A) Answer in short.
1) Out of all the towns found in the Harrapan Civilization, which was the ideal town planning?
2) For which thing it was common for tribal community to fight?
3) Which was the most powerful state of the Mahajanpadas?
4 How many Mahajanpadas were there?
5) What is Janpade?
6) The Capital of Magadh was situated on the bank of which river?
7) According to which book there were 16 Mahajanpadas in Post Vedic Period?
(B) Expalin the concept.
Administration of Republic state.
Answers
1-Town planning is the unique feature of Indus valley civilization. Their town planning proves that they lived a highly civilized and developed life. Indus people were the first to build planned cities with scientific drainage system. The Indus cities were built on an uniform plan
2-The main problems of the tribal communities are poverty, indebtedness, illiteracy, bondage, exploitation, disease and unemployment
3-Kashi. The kingdom was located in the region around its capital Varanasi, bounded by the Varuna and Asi rivers in the north and south which gave Varanasi its name. Before Buddha, Kasi was the most powerful of the sixteen Mahajanapadas.
4-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.
5-The Janapadas were the realms, republics and kingdoms (saamarajya) of the Vedic period on the Indian subcontinent. The Vedic period reaches from the late Bronze Age into the Iron Age: from about 1500 BCE to the 6th century BCE.
6-The Mahatma Gandhi Bridge across the Ganges (Ganga) River at Patna, Bihar, India. The ancient city of Pataliputra was founded in the 5th century bce by Ajatashatru, king of Magadha (South Bihar). His son Udaya (Udayin) made it the capital of Magadha, which it remained until the 1st century bce.
7-16 Mahajanapadas - Anga Mahajanapada finds reference in the Mahabharata and Atharva Veda. During the rule of Bimbisara, it was taken over Magadha Empire.