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6.15 Ancient South Asia Worksheet

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This Grade 6 Social Studies worksheet provides structured practice on 6.15 Ancient South Asia. Students are guided through targeted exercises that build foundational understanding, computational accuracy, and critical thinking skills.

Ancient South Asia — Interpret evidence about Ancient South Asia, including cities, trade, and beliefs. Alignment: 6.15.

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Problem 1Difficulty: Mastery

A site has Mauryan punch-marked coins but no Mauryan inscriptions. However, the site’s fortifications match Mauryan frontier patterns described in texts.

Which is the most defensible interpretation?

AThe coins must be modern fakes.

BTexts are always wrong, so ignore them.

CThe site must belong to the Indus period.

DMauryan influence may have reached the site through military or administrative presence even if inscriptions did not survive.

Solution & Explanation:Coin circulation plus matching frontier patterns suggests contact or control. Lack of inscriptions could be preservation bias; multiple evidence types support a cautious link.

Problem 2Difficulty: Mastery

A Mauryan edict orders planting of medicinal herbs along roads. A Gupta medical treatise lists plants and dosages, citing earlier traditions.

What is the best synthesis of these sources?

AMedicine began only in Gupta times.

BEdicts are not related to real life.

CState policy and scholarly knowledge both contributed to health practices, building on earlier traditions.

DHerbs were used only for dye, never medicine.

Solution & Explanation:The edict shows practical public policy; the treatise shows detailed scholarly medicine. Together they suggest a broader medical culture across time.

Problem 3Difficulty: Mastery

Indus craft goods show high-quality carnelian beads. Similar beads appear in Mesopotamian graves, but the graves date slightly later than the Indus workshop debris.

What is the most reasonable inference from the dating?

AMesopotamians invented carnelian first.

BIndus-produced beads may have been exported and reached Mesopotamia after leaving the workshops.

CIndus beads could not travel across seas.

DDates prove the beads moved backward in time.

Solution & Explanation:If production debris is earlier and the same goods appear later elsewhere, export and later deposition is a plausible explanation consistent with trade.

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This worksheet is designed specifically for Grade 6 Social Studies students. It aligns with educational standard 6.15 (Interpret evidence about Ancient South Asia, including cities, trade, and beliefs.).