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The lowest unit of administration during the Sangam Age was Ur

1. People celebrate several festivals.

2. The harvest festival, (Pongal) and the festival of spring, Kaarthigai, were some of them.

3. Indira vizha was celebrated in the Capital.

1.  iii, ii, ii

1. True

2. False 

3. False 

4. True 

5. False 

6. True

1. Iron 

2. Coins 

3. Kaveri delta 

4. Made of stone 

5. vedic rituals 

6. Komahan 

7. coin 

8. Kaveri deltas

Tamizhagam started from Vengadam (Tirupathi hill) in the north to Kanyakumari (Cape comorin) in the south, bounded by sea on the east and the west.

1. v 

2. i 

3. iv 

4. ii

5. iii

1. The literary sources include Tamil Navalar Charithai, Yapernkalam and Periapuranam for the period of Kalabhra.

2. Seevaka Chinthamani and Kundalakesi were aslo written during this period. Many works under pathinenkeezh kanakku were composed.

3. During this period Jainism and Buddhism became prominent.

4. The – introduction of Sanskrit and Prakrit developed Vattezhuththu script.

5. Trade and commerce flourished.

So the Kalabhra Period is not a dark age.

Answer is A. 3 2 1

1. KarikalValavan or Karikalan was the most famous of the Chola kings.

2. He defeated the combined army of the Cheras, Pandyas and the eleven Velir Chieftains who supported them at Venni, a small village in the Thanjavur region.

3. He converted forests into cultivable lands. 

4. He built Kallanai across the river Kaveri to develop agriculture.

5. Their port Puhar attracted merchants from various regions of the Indian Ocean.

6. The Pattinapaalai a poetic work in the pathinenkeezhkanakku gives elaborate information of the trading activity during the rule of Karikalan.

1. Karikalana 

2. Tholkappriya 

3. Karikalana

4. Thanithalaivan 

5. Irai

(c) Kalabhras

1. – iv 

2. – i 

3. – ii 

4. – iii

1. b and d are true

1.  b and d only

(a) Marutham

(d) Both A and R are true. R is the correct explanation of A

(c) Kalabhras

(c) Hunting and gathering

(b) Cheran Senguttuvan

(c) Pallavas

(c) old village

C) while looking through a sheet of ice

At a time when we have machines for everything, it is a rare sight to see someone handpicking cotton bolls. But I got the opportunity when I went to my uncle’s place in Gujarat. It’s very interesting to watch cottonpicking. I saw labourers wearing white cloth around their head and picking cotton bolls. They carried long bags into which they put the cotton bolls that they had picked. The cotton plants do not grow very high. Hence it is easier for people to pick cotton with their bare hands. They make way for themselves amidst the plants and pick cotton bolls. (Note: A cotton boll is actually the blossom of cotton that gets picked off the plant before it is processed. A cotton ball is a ball of refined cotton that is sold in shops.)

A) an ‘essence’ in the winter air

In the beginning, Nyame, the Sky God, owned the stories.

D) Anansi’s tale.

Correct Answer is : A) tree

Correct Answer is : B) gourd

Anansi, the spider, wanted to own them later.

Correct Answer is : A) pole

1. Yearn: to long for I yearn to possess an i-pad in which I can store many interesting stories. 

2. Plug: to fill We were able to plug the hole with cement. 

3. Accustomed: habituated I am accustomed to drinking green tea in the morning. 

4. Onward: forward While booking for the onward journey, we also booked for our return journey. 

5. Acknowledge: recognize It is decency to acknowledge the help of others when we write our success stories. 

6. Measure: to find the size, quantity, speed etc. The tailor can tell the length of a piece of cloth by just looking at it.

B) a dry gourd

Correct Answer is : C) vine

A) the Price was too high for them

Anansi bent a tall green tree towards the ground over the pit in order to pull out Osebo from the pit.

The spider had three things to pay as price: Mmoboro, the hornets; Onini, the python and Osebo, the leopard.

Anansi dug a deep pit in the forest to capture the leopard Osebo.

All should acknowledge that the stories belonged to Anansi before telling a story because all the stories and tales now belonged to Anansi who had successfully won them over from the Sky God.

We see that the python got trapped because of his vanity. Anansi used this weakness of the python to trap it. Anansi went “v to the forest and cut a long bamboo pole and some strong vines.

Then he walked towards the house of Onini, the python. All the while he kept talking to himself that his wife was stupid to say that Onini was shorter and weaker than that bamboo. Hearing this, Onini offered to be measured against the bamboo to solve the dispute. Anansi laid the pole on the ground and the python came and stretched himself out beside it. Anansi remarked that the python was a little short. When the python stretched at the head he was shorter at the tail and vice-versa.

So, with his consent, Anansi tied Onini’s head and tail firmly to the pole. He wrapped the vine around Onini until he was unable to move on the pretext of stretching him out against the bamboo. When the python was thus constricted, Anansi took the python to the Sky God as prisoner

Anansi tied Onini at one end of the pole because when Onini stretched at one end he was getting shorter at the other. So Anansi suggested that the python be tied to the bamboo pole to ensure that he was straight and there was no mistake being made about his length.

Anansi poured water on himself and over the hornets because he wanted to make the hornets believe that it was raining.

Each of them – the hornets, the python, and the leopard fell into the trap of Anansi as expected by him. Therefore, Anansi called them ‘foolish’.

Anansi was clever at cheating the hornets. He made them believe that it was raining and that they needed protection from the rain. Anansi first cut a gourd from a vine and made a small hole in it. He took a large calabash and filled it with water. He went to the tree where the hornets lived. He poured some of the water over himself so that he was dripping. He threw some water over the hornets making them all wet.

Then he put the calabash on his head, as though to protect himself from a storm and called out to the hornets and asked them why they were staying in the rain. When the hornets said that they had nowhere else to go, he told them to go into the gourd through the small hole. When the last of them had gone in, Anansi plugged the hole with a ball of grass. He took the gourd full of hornets to Nyame, the Sky God.

Anansi captured Mmoboro, the hornets, in a gourd by making a small hole in it.

Yes, Anansi agreed to pay the price.

Correct Answer is : D) Nyame.

Osebo swore not to kill Anansi and his children. Therefore, Anansi agreed to help Osebo.

Anansi said that Osebo would be thankless. As soon as he was out of the pit, he would be hungry and would want to eat Anansi and his children. So, he refused to help Osebo come out of the pit

Anansi wanted to impress the python. He wanted the python to react and so he said that while he respected the python. his wife did not.