Sangam Age
Sangam Age: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as Sangam Age, Sangam Literature, Position of Women during Sangam Age & Economy of the Sangam Age etc.
Important Questions on Sangam Age
During the Sangam period, which of the following was the most significant economic category?

What was the capital of Chola during Sangam age?

During the Sangam age what was the capital of Pandyas?

During the Sangam age Anthanar were known as?

According to the tamil text Tolkapiyyam, what is the type of land Palai?

According to the Tolkapiyyam the land in Sangam society was divided in how many folds?

Tolkappiyam textbook was mainly related to?

Which of the following is not a Sangam literature?

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding the association of women with Sangam literature?
A. The natural feminine qualities such as Achcham, Madam and Naanam were insisted in the Sangam literature.
B. Women poetesses had lived and left behind their valuable works.
C. The concept of love had been elaborately discussed in Agananuru.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding the status of women in Sangam society?
A. Women's had no property rights.
B. Prostitution was a recognised institution.
C. Women's does not have to perform Sati.

Which of the following statements about women's roles in Sangam society is correct?

Which of the following is correct regarding the status of women in Sangam era?

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding the position of women during the Sangam age?
A. Women had minimal respect and were not allowed intellectual pursuits.
B. Women were allowed to choose their life partners.

Which of the following landscape in the Sangam society refers to desert?

Which of the following landscape in the Sangam society was associated with sea-coast?

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding the Tolkappiyam in the Sangam society?
A. The ruling class was called arasar.
B. Vanigars carried on trade and commerce.
C. The primary deity of the Sangam period was Seyon or Murugan, who is hailed as Tamil God.

The First Sangam, is believed to be held at _____.

Sangam academies flourished under the royal patronage of which of the following rulers?

Pattuppattu originally contained ten sections of ten poems each dedicated to a decade of rule in ancient _____.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct regarding the Patirruppattu poems?
A. Each decade has poems, each poem has an average length of lines.
B. Each of the verses of the extant eight tens of Patirruppattu has at its end a composition known as a Patikam.
