Usually two to three generations live together in small settlements or villages. Most families are related to one another and groups of such families form a tribe. Members of a tribe follow occupations such as hunting, gathering, farming, herding and fishing.

The people who would be present at the sacrifice are:
(i) The king, his wives, sons and relatives
(ii) The charioteer of the king
(iii) The priests
(iv) The ordinary people, the vish or vaishya
(v) The other rajas
The categories of people who are described in terms of their occupation are:
(i) The king. who protected the people and looked after their welfare.
(ii) The charioteer, who was his companion in his exploits.
(iii) The priest, who performed the religious ceremony.

(a)The occupations mentioned in the story are:
(i) Hotel owner: lived in the city.
(ii) Trader: city
(iii) Gardener: b~h in the village and city
(iv) Potter: lived in the village
(v) Grasscutter: village
(vi) Horse merchant (trader): both in the village and city.
(b) The horse dealer was coming to the city to sell his horses because he hag 500 horses and wanted to sell them to make profit.
(c) Women could have taken up some occupations: 
(i) Hotel owner It is time consuming, needing long hours of work. It cannot be taken up by women.
(ii) Traders Usually, they work in the cities or go from one city to other Sometimes, the traders have to stay overnight or for many days. Thus, women cannot do this job.
(iii) Gardener Women can do this job easily.
(iv) Grass cutter Women can do this job easily.
(v) Potter Women can do this job but it needs more skill.

The Prakrit spoken in Magadha was known as Magadhi. Ordinary people could understand the teachings of Mahavira and his followers, because they used Prakrit. There were several forms of Prakrit, used in different parts of the country and named after the regions in which they were used.

The historians and the archaeologists derive the informations from the inscriptions, manuscripts, coins etc as the sources. Once the sources are found, learning about the past becomes an adventure as the archaeologists reconstruct it bit by bit.So, we can say that the sources are like clues to find out about our past.

(i) This passage is extracted from the famous epic Silappadikaram.
(ii) This epic was written in Tamil.
(iii) This epic was composed by a poet Ilango.
(iv) Kannagi was full of grief because the king sentenced her husband to death.

Inamgaon is a site on the river God, a tributary of the river Bhima. It was occupied between 3600 and 2700 years ago.
(i) Here, adults were generally buried in the ground, laid out straight, with the head towards the north
(ii) Sometimes burials were within the houses.
(iii) Vessels that probably contained food and water were placed with the dead bodies.
(iv) One man was found buried in a large, fourlegged clay jar in the courtyard of a five-roomed house (one of the largest houses at the site) in the centre of the settlement.
(v) This house also had a granary. The body was placed in a cross-legged position.

(i) Archaeologists and historians are scholars who study things that are made and used in the past through the process of excavation.
(ii) Manuscripts, inscriptions, tools, coins and monuments are the sources of information used by then to know about the past of the people.
(iii) Once these sources are found, learning about the past becomes an adventure and gradually, history is reconstructed. That is why, historians and archaeologists use various sources to study about our past.

The farmers grow the cereals. The various steps involved are:
(i) Ploughing the fields and putting manure.
(ii) Sowing the seeds and looking after the tender plants and saving them from pests.
(iii)Watering the fields.
(iv) Harvesting the crop and storing them in the sheds. The chart given below show how the cereals reach the people from the farmers:

(i)Karle, present-day Maharashtra
(ii)Monks and nuns lived and meditated in these caves or shelters.

People travelled from one part of the sub-continent to another due to the following reasons:
(i) People travelled from one place to another in search of livelihood, to escape from natural disasters like floods or droughts.
(ii) Some people also travelled with the spirit of adventure, to find out the interesting facts and to discover new places.
(iii) Caravans or ships were the means of communication and transportation of food material for the merchants.
(iv) Religious teachers moved from one place to another to deliver their religious teachings to the people.
(v) Travelling emerged as a strong aspect of sharing ideas between the diversities.