Goyal Brothers Prakashan solutions for History and Civics [English] Class 9 ICSE chapter 1.06 - The Sangam Age: Kingdoms and The Social and Economic Conditions [Latest edition]

Name the oldest language of South India. OR Name the oldest Dravidian language.

What is known as Sangam literature?

Name any two literary sources to reconstruct the history of the Sangam age.

Who were 'Tirukurral'?

Mention any two archaeological sources to reconstruct the history of the Sangam age.

Why are the graves of people in the megalithic phase in South India’s history called ‘Megalithis’?

How do Megaliths suggest that people of Southern India in those times had become familiar with iron?

Why did Arundhati, a character in Sanskrit literature, become a model for South Indian Women in the Sangam age?

Name the two agricultural products during the Sangam Age.

Name the two prominent ports on India’s Western Coast during the Sangam age.

Name the two deities worshiped by people in the Sangam age.

Name the two items of trade referred to in the Tamil literature of the Sangam age.

Mention the two views held by scholars regarding the origin of the Dravidians.

Name any two famous epics of Tamil literature.

How does the inscription of Kharvela, the ruler of Kalinga, enable us to reconstruct the history of the Sangam age?

Hero-stone reminds us of an important event. What is the event?

Mention any two Chera rulers whose names figure in the Sangam literature.

Who was the greatest among the earliest Chola kings?

What did the Chera region produce in large quantities in the Sangam age?

There are many literary sources to reconstruct the history of the Sangam age. In this context explain the literary importance of Tirukurral.

How can the Megaliths help us to reconstruct events of the Sangam age?

Describe the social conditions that Sangam literature depicts with reference to:

The Castes

Describe the social conditions that Sangam literature depicts with reference to:

The Ruling Class and the Class of Warriors

Describe the social conditions that Sangam literature suggests with reference to:

Institution of Marriage

Describe the social conditions that Sangam literature suggests with reference to: Position of Women

The Sangam literature gives a complete and true picture of the economic conditions of the age. Describe the economic life of the people with reference to:

Agriculture

The Sangam literature gives a complete and true picture of the economic conditions of the age. Describe the economic life of the people with reference to:

Trade

With reference to economic conditions during the Sangam Age, explain the following: Significance of Occupational Guilds

With reference to economic conditions during the Sangam Age, explain the following: Socio-economic Inequalities in the Sangam Age.

What is meant by the term ‘the Sangam Age’?

Name the author of Tolkappiyam.

Name the three kingdoms mentioned in the Sangam texts.

Name any three Epics mentioned in the Sangam literature.

What was the theme of the Aham type of literature?

What were the topics of the Puram category of poems?

Name the author of Tirukkural.

In whose honor were the hero stones erected during the Sangam Age?

Name the four castes mentioned in the Tolkappiyam.

Name the five physiographic divisions of tinais mentioned in the Sangam literature.

Who were the Vellalas during the Sangam Age?

Name the chief crops grown during the Sangam Period.

Name one center of cotton trade mentioned in the Sangam literature.

Name the products exported to foreign lands during the Sangam Age.

Name any two ports of the Sangam Age. 

With reference to the sources of information about the Sangam Age, explain the significance of the following;

 Literary texts

With reference to the sources of information about the Sangam Age, explain the significance of the following;

Megaliths 

With reference to the sources of information about the Sangam Age, explain the significance of the following;

Hero stones

With reference to the Sangam Age, answer the following question:

Explain why the Sangam Age is so called?

With reference to the Sangam Age, answer the following question:

Describe the achievements of Chera ruler, Senguttuvan; and Chola ruler, Karikalan.

With reference to the Sangam Age, answer the following question:

Name the three kingdoms that existed during the Sangam Age.

With reference to the society that existed during the Sangam Age, answer the following question:

Explain briefly the functions of the four castes mentioned in the Tolkappiyam.

With reference to the society that existed during the Sangam Age, answer the following question:

Name the physiographic divisions of the Tamil land and the occupations associated with each one of them.

With reference to the society that existed during the Sangam Age, answer the following question:

Explain the position of women.

With reference to the economy during the Sangam Age, answer the following question:

What was the main occupation of the people and the activities associated with it? What were the other occupations of the people?

With reference to the economy during the Sangam Age, answer the following question:

Explain the organisation of internal trade.

With reference to the economy during the Sangam Age, answer the following question:

Explain the extent and significance of external trade.