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These texts can be used to trace the beginnings of urbanism and non-kin-based labour in ancient India. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these earliest deciphered Indian texts, which give their name to the period from around 1500 to 500 BC and are mainly descriptions of rituals and hymns. The later three of these texts are named Yajur, Sama, and Atharva.
ANSWER: Vedas [or the Vedic Period]
[10h] Michael Witzel argues that the later three Vedas were compiled in this kingdom around modern-day Haryana and Delhi. The Painted Grey Ware archaeological culture is associated with this confederacy and its ally, Pañcāla (“pan-CHA-la”).
ANSWER: Kuru Kingdom [or Kuru Confederacy or Kuru tribal union or Kuru janapada]
[10m] Description acceptable. In the Rigveda, the word for these conflicts, gavishthi, is a synonym for fighting. Most violent conflict in the Vedic period consisted of these campaigns, as they could cause rapid gains and losses of wealth.
ANSWER: cattle raids [accept looking for cattle; accept stealing or looting or taking or other synonyms in place of of raids; accept cows or other synonyms in place of cattle; prompt on livestock raids or horse raids or raids or synonyms thereof; reject raids to acquire things that don’t include cattle such as “goat raids” or “slave raids”]
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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/2026✕417.50100%50%25%
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/2026✕220.00100%100%0%
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/2026✕415.00100%50%0%
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/2026✕313.33100%33%0%
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/2025✓512.00100%20%0%
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/2025✕417.50100%50%25%
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/2025✕313.33100%33%0%
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/2025✕417.50100%75%0%
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/2025✕616.67100%67%0%
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/2025✕58.0080%0%0%
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/2025✕210.00100%0%0%