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The document contains 25 multiple choice questions about the Sangam age in Tamil Nadu, India. It covers topics like Sangam literature, royal dynasties, trade with Rome, agriculture, cities, social classes, and religious practices during this period. The questions test knowledge about the Pandya, Chola, and Chera dynasties, as well as Sangam texts like the Tolkappiyam and the Kural. Major ports and trade goods involving India and Rome are also addressed.

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Sangam Short

The document contains 25 multiple choice questions about the Sangam age in Tamil Nadu, India. It covers topics like Sangam literature, royal dynasties, trade with Rome, agriculture, cities, social classes, and religious practices during this period. The questions test knowledge about the Pandya, Chola, and Chera dynasties, as well as Sangam texts like the Tolkappiyam and the Kural. Major ports and trade goods involving India and Rome are also addressed.

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1 The last anthology or group of Sangam literature, known as Ten Idylls, is Ans:Tolkappiam 2 Which of the following was not

one of the royal dynasties of the Tamil country during the Sangam age? Ans:Pallava 3 Small Village Assmblies during the Sangam Age were known as______ Ans:Avai 4 The Indian bird or animal most widely exported to the Roman world was? Ans:Peacocks 5 The chief centre or meeting point of the Indo-Roman trade was? Ans:Alexandria 6 The spies during the Sangam Age were known? Ans:Orras 7 Which of the following was not one of the popular deities of the Sangam Age? Ans:Ganesha 8 Which of the following Sangam works tries to expound the excellence of Buddhisim? Ans:Tolkappiyam 9 Which of the following dynarties were contantly at war with the cheras during the later Sangam Age? Ans:Pandya

10 The Centre of Sangam literature and the partones of Sangam poets were? Ans:The Pandyas of Madurai 11 The Provinces during the Sangam Age were known as mandalams and mandalams were further subdivided into? Ans:Kottam 12 Which of the following text is called Land of Tamil Veda?

Ans:Pandyan 14 Which of the following was the wonderful discovery made by Hippalus in A.D. 45, leading to increase of trade with Rome? Ans:The existence of the monsoon winds blowing across the Indian Ocean 15 Which of the following institutions did not exist during the Sangam Age? Ans:Slavery 16 Which of the following statements was not one of the better known agriculture products of the Sangam Age? Ans:Wheat 17 which of the following has a great customs port with an artificial harbour? Ans:Puhar 18 Ancient Chola dynasty Capital city was? Ans:Uraiyur 19 Which of following was not one of the important articles of export? Ans:Sugar 20 Kavikala belongs to ____________ king Ans:Chola 21 The richest and biggest land-owning class during the sangam Age? Ans:Nayaks 22 Which of the following were the main articles of import? Ans:Gold 23 Which of the following was not one of the methods of disposal of the dead practiced in the Sangam Age? Ans:Giving Watery grave to the dead Ans:Kural 13 A Tamil King who is said to have sent the earliest embasy to Augustees at Athens about 20 B.C. was a _________king

24 In which of the following respects, the Romans did not profoundly influence Indian life and culture? Ans:Fashion 25 The Goddess Kannagi, whose many temples were erected during the Sangam Age, was the goddess of? Ans:Chastity

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