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Ochre Coloured Pottery, usually abbreviated to OCP, is a worn, ill fired, orange to ochre pottery whose colour rubs off on the fingers because the surface has been damaged by water.

Northern Black Polished Ware, usually shortened to NBPW, is a very fine clay pottery with a glossy, almost mirror like surface in steel grey to jet black.

Painted Grey Ware is a fine, thin, wheel made grey pottery decorated with simple black lines, dots and spirals, dated roughly between 1100 and 600 BCE.

Anathapindika, a wealthy merchant of Shravasti, bought a grove from prince Jeta and built the Jetavana monastery there for the Buddha and the order, and the Buddha is said to have passed more rainy season retreats at Shravasti than anywhere else.

Alamgirpur stands on the bank of the Hindon, a tributary of the Yamuna, in Meerut district, and it is taken as the eastern limit of the Harappan civilisation; pottery, beads and the impression of cloth are among its finds.

Panchala was divided into a northern and a southern half, and Ahichchhatra in Bareilly district was the capital of the north while Kampilya in Farrukhabad was the capital of the south.

Jain tradition holds that Parshvanatha, the twenty third tirthankara and the immediate predecessor of Mahavira, was born at Varanasi as a prince of that city, and he is remembered as the teacher whose followers Mahavira's order absorbed.

Kosala lay in the central and eastern plain of Uttar Pradesh with Shravasti as its capital and Saketa, the Ayodhya of today, as a second centre.

The capital of the Ashokan pillar at Sarnath carries four lions standing back to back on an abacus bearing four wheels and four animals, and it was adopted as the State Emblem of India on 26 January 1950.

Kushinara, the Kushinagar of today in eastern Uttar Pradesh, was a town of the Malla mahajanapada, and the Buddha died there between two sal trees at the age of eighty, a death traditionally dated to 483 BCE and remembered as the mahaparinirvana.

After his enlightenment the Buddha walked to the deer park at Sarnath near Varanasi and preached to the five ascetics who had been his companions.

The Vatsa mahajanapada lay in the Ganga and Yamuna doab with its capital at Kaushambi, and its best known ruler was Udayana, who appears in Sanskrit literature and in Buddhist texts alike.

Magadha lay on the southern bank of the Ganga, in the region of present day Patna, Gaya and Nalanda, with its early capital at Rajagriha among the hills and later at Pataliputra at the meeting of the Ganga and the Son.

The Pampas is the temperate grassland of Argentina and Uruguay, a flat and fertile region of wheat farming and cattle ranching.

Milpa is the local name for the slash and burn farming of Mexico, Guatemala and the neighbouring countries, in which a forest patch is cleared and burnt, cropped with maize, beans and squash for a few seasons and then left to recover.

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan, and formerly of Sakhalin and the Kuril islands.

The Maori are the Polynesian people who settled New Zealand before European contact. Their ceremonial war dance, the haka, is widely known, their meeting house is the marae, and the Maori language is one of the official languages of New Zealand, which they call Aotearoa.

The Inuit, earlier called Eskimo, live along the Arctic coasts of Greenland, Canada and Alaska. In winter they build the igloo, a dome of cut snow blocks, and in summer they live in the tupik, a tent of animal skin.

The Sami are the indigenous people of the far north of Norway, Sweden and Finland and of the Kola peninsula in Russia, a region often called Lapland.

The Bedouins are Arabic speaking nomads of the Arabian peninsula and the Syrian desert, who move with camels, sheep and goats between wells and seasonal pasture.