Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Ancient India: Kings, Farmers and Towns

Question:

Match the following options in List 1 correctly with those in List 2:

List 1

List 2

(a) 1888

(i) Tamil word for successful merchants

(b) 1886

(ii) Greek name for the Red Sea

(c) Masattuvan

(iii) First issue of Epigraphia Indica

(d) Erythraean

(iv) First issue of Epigraphia Carnatica

 

Options:

 (a)- iii, (b)- iv, (c)- ii, (d)- i

 (a)- iii, (b)- iv, (c)- i, (d)- ii

 (a)- iv, (b)- i, (c)- iii, (d)- ii

 (a)- iii, (b)- i, (c)- iv, (d)- ii

Correct Answer:

 (a)- iii, (b)- iv, (c)- i, (d)- ii

Explanation:

1888- First issue of Epigraphia Indica.

1886- First issue of Epigraphia Carnatica, a journal of South Indian inscriptions.

There were seafarers, whose ventures were risky but highly profitable. Successful merchants, designated as masattuvan in Tamil and setthis and satthavahas in Prakrit, could become enormously rich.

Erythraean was the Greek name for the Red Sea.