Chapter 8: Vital Villages, Thriving Towns

History • Class 6 • Class 6 Our Past I

Vital Villages, Thriving Towns

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History • Class 6 • Class 6 Our Past I

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This: possible with irrigation.
Labour: provided by the people.
Farmers also benefit because crop production: more certain.
Here: part of a Jataka story, which tells us how a poor man gradually became rich.
Another way of finding out about early cities: from the accounts of sailors and travellers who visited them.
This: a sculpture from Sanchi, a site with stupas, in Madhya Pradesh, showing the scene in a city.
The gulf: very narrow at Barygaza, and very hard to navigate for those coming from the sea.
CoinsCoins CoinsCoins Coins You may have noticed how wealth: measured in terms of coins in the story on page 82.
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It gets its name from the fact that it: generally found in the northern part of the subcontinent.
NBPW: a hard, wheel made, metallic looking ware with a shiny black surface.
There: plenty of evidence for the making of beads from semi-precious stones and glass.
This: one of the oldest cities in Europe, and developed around the same time as the cities in the Ganga valley.