TRADERS, KINGS AND PILGRIMS
I FILL IN THE BLANKS:
1. ______________________________ was famous for gold, spices especially pepper and precious stones.
2. Many _____________________ gold coins have been found in South India.
3. Traders who wanted to reach the western coast of the Indian sub-continent from East Africa or Arabia chose to sail with the ______________________ ___________________.
4. ___________________ and __________________ who controlled the river valleys became rich and powerful.
5. The Chiefs did not collect regular __________________ instead demanded and received ___________________ from the people.
6. Gautamiputra, Satakarni and other Satavahana rulers were known as lords of the _________________________
7. Techniques of making silk were first invented in ________________ around 7000 years ago.
8. The best known of the rulers who controlled the Silk Route were the ______________________.
9. Kanishka organised a ________________________council where scholars met and discussed important matters.
10.The worship of ___________________________ became very popular and spread throughout Central Asia, China and later to Korea and Japan
11.________________________ are men and women who undertake journeys to holy places in order to offer worship.
12.Those who followed the system of _________________ emphasised devotion and individual worship of a God or Goddess rather than the performance of elaborate ______________________.
13._____________________ inspired some of the best expressions in art-sculpture, poetry and architecture.
14.The word Hindu is derived from the river ___________________.
II NAME THE FOLLOWING:
1. This spice was known as black gold in the Roman Empire _______________
2. This Tamil word means three chiefs- heads of the Cholas, Cheras and Pandyas. _________________________
3. The port of the Cholas. __________________________________________
4. The capital of the Pandyas. _______________________
5. The most important rulers of the Satavahanas. __________________________
6. The most famous Kushana ruler. __________________________
7. The older form of Buddhism. _________________________________
8. The new form of Buddhism. ___________________________________
9. The three best known Chinese Buddhist pilgrims.
_________________, __________________, _______________________
10.Xuan Zang studied in this famous Buddhist monastery in Bihar. _________________________
11.The court poet of Kanishka. ________________________
12.The biography of Buddha composed by Ashvaghosha.
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The highly formalized methods of Vedic learning helped inspire the establishment of large teaching institutions such as Taxila, Nalanda, and Vikramashila which are often characterized as India's early universities. Nalanda flourished under the patronage of the Gupta Empire in the 5th and 6th centuries and later under Harsha, the emperor of Kannauj.
At its peak, the school attracted scholars and students from near and far with some travelling from Tibet, China, Korea, and Central Asia. Archaeological evidence also notes contact with the Shailendra dynasty of Indonesia, one of whose kings built a monastery in the complex.
Much of our knowledge of Nalanda comes from the writings of pilgrim monks frombAsia such as Xuan Zang. All students at Nalanda studied Mahayana as well as the texts of the eighteen (Hinayana) sects of Buddhism. Their curriculum also included other subjects such as the Vedas, logic, Sanskrit grammar, medicine etc.
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