Janapadas mahajanapadas and earths constiuents

Q1) Janapada is made of 2 sanskrit words.Name them.

• jana pada

• jana foot

Q2) What led the Janapadas to become Mahajanapada?

• power

• land

Q3) How did Mahajanapadas make better fortresses, armies and infrastructure?

• tax

• labor

Q4) Name any two Mahajanapadas.

• Vatsa and Avanti

• Avanti and Kuru

Q5) State why the farming and agriculture prospered in Mahajanapada kingdoms

• alluvial soil

• water

Q6) Name the 2 types of governments

• monarchy and republic

• theocracy

Q7) State how a ruler is selected in a republic.

• immediate sucessor

• voting

Q8) Vatsa and Avanti have what kind of of election system.

• monarchy

• republic

Q9) There were many Mahajanapadas in India, state the number of them ?

• 16

• 26

Q10) The people in the kingdoms had to pay taxes to the rulers, name the ways they paid their taxes.

• labour

• grains

• comodity

• money

• land