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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL


                                               CLASS VI HISTORY

                                CH 8- VITAL VILLAGES, THRIVING TOWNS


         NOTES

         FINDING ABOUT CITIES: STORIES, TRAVELLERS, SCULPTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY

         Sources of information-


             ➢  Jataka stories
             ➢  Sculptures- in railings, pillars, gateways depicting social life of people.
             ➢  Rows of pots or ceramic rings (ring wells)
             ➢  Accounts of sailors or travellers like the story of Barygaza.

         COINS

             ➢  Punch- marked coins-
                 •  stamped with symbols
                 •  usually square or rectangular.
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