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. Answer the following questions in short.
1. What is the meaning of Indus in Sanskrit?
2. When did agriculture begin?
3. Name any two animals that people of Sulaiman and Kirthar hills reared.
4. Where were manuscripts preserved?
5. Name the ruler whose inscription has been found from Kandhar?
Answers
Answer:
1. Etymology and names
This river was known to the ancient Indians in Sanskrit as Sindhu and the Persians as Hindu which was regarded by both of them as "the border river". ... The meaning of Sindhu as a "large body of water, sea, or ocean" is a later meaning in Classical Sanskrit.
2. Agriculture began about 10,000 years ago in an area called the Fertile Crescent, in modern-day Iraq, Syria, and Jordan. At the time, there were only about five million people in the world.
3. Sheep and goat.
4. The oldest written manuscripts have been preserved by the perfect dryness of their Middle Eastern resting places, whether placed within sarcophagi in Egyptian tombs, or reused as mummy -wrappings, discarded in the middens of Oxyrhynchus or secreted for safe-keeping in jars and buried (Nag Hammadi library) or stored in dry caves (Dead Sea scrolls).
5. ASHOKA was the ruler whose inscription has been found from Kandahar.
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Answer:
1) The Sanskrit word is Sindhu. Sindhu simply means water or river. ... Sindhu simply means water or river.
2) around 12,000 years ago
3) Answer: Sheep and goat
4) MANUSCRIPTS ARE PRESERVED IN ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL LIBRARIES TODAY. Manuscripts are preserved in special libraries
5) Indian Maurya Empire ruler Ashoka
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