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Assertion (A): Many of the Mesolithic sites are found nearby rivers and tanks.


Reason (R): Irrigation management developed during the Mesolithic period.


Mesolithic age is the age between the Palaeolithic age and the Neolithic age. It has characteristics of both the ages. The people from this age lived on hunting, fish and food gathering. Later they also big and the domestication of animals.

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(i) The period before the introduction of writing is called pre-history.


(ii) The pre-historic people developed language, made beautiful paintings and artefacts.


(iii) The pre-historic societies are treated as literate.


(iv) The pre-historic period is called ancient.


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(i) The Neolithic people used polished stone axes called Celts


(ii) Evidence of Neolithic village is found at Payyampalli in Chennai district


(iii) The cultural period that succeeded the Neolithic is called the Bronze Age


(iv) The period that witnessed domestication of animals and cultivation of crops is called Mesolithic


 1 J

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Assertion (A): The Ashokan inscriptions datable to third century BCE refer to the Cheras, Cholas, Pandyas and Satyaputras outside his empire in Tamilagam.


Reason (R): Ancient kings of Tamilagam commenced their political rule in the Iron Age.


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