State and Society up to 1000 CE: CBSE Class 9 History practice questions

B. Sabhā

The sabhā was a smaller body of select elites with a mainly judicial role. The samiti was a larger assembly that represented the broader population and dealt with policy and political affairs. The vidhata was a popular gathering of the janas where warfare and other political matters were discussed. The mantri-pariṣhad (council of ministers) belongs to the later kingdoms, not to the Vedic assemblies.

C. From kinship-based identity to territorial identity

Between about 1000 BCE and 600 BCE, people came to be bound not only by kinship but also by a sense of belonging to a land. So the change was from kinship-based to territorial identity. Control over land, farm produce and trade routes then became important, and administration grew more complex. Option A gets the direction backwards.

B. About 705 years

From 250 BCE to the zero line is 250 years, and from there to 455 CE is another 455, so $250 + 455 = 705$ years. That matches the chapter's 'about 700 years'. (There is no year 0, so the exact count is 704, which still rounds to about 700.) 205 comes from subtracting as if both dates were CE, 455 ignores the BCE part, and 250 ignores the CE part.