who were the first kings to issue gold coins in india?
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The Indo-Greeks were the first rulers in India to issue coins which can definitely be attributed to the kings. They were the first to issue gold coins in India.
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['Controlled the gold/salt trade.', 'Devout Muslim.', 'Very wealthy-gave up so much gold, the value of it declined(path to hajj)', 'Led for about 25 years.']
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['National Flag – Tiranga. ... ', 'National Currency – Indian Rupee.', 'National River – Ganges. ... ', 'National Flower – Indian Lotus. ... ', 'National Fruit – Mango. ... ', 'National Tree – Indian Banyan. ... ', 'National Animal – Bengal Tiger. ... ', 'National Bird – Indian Peafowl.']
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The Temple was built by Laxman Dev Rai & Gopal Dev of Faninagvansh Dynasty. The temple complex, highlighted as a "scintillating poetry in stone", is credited to Nagwanshi Kings who practiced tantrism and who ruled in the then Southern Koshal region, which is now the state of Chhattisgarh.
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It was commissioned in the early 17th century by emperor Shah Jahan and was located in the Diwan-i-Khas (Hall of Private Audiences, or Ministers' Room) in the Red Fort of Delhi. The original throne was subsequently captured and taken as a war trophy in 1739 by the Persian emperor Nadir Shah, and has been lost since.
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The oldest name of Patna is “Patliputra” that was the capital of the great kingdom of Magadh. It is composed of two words , Patali and Putraka meaning “King”. The name Patliputra was given by ancient Indian ruler Ajatashatru.
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Alauddin Khilji brought in a lot of administrative changes during his time. Not only was he the first to create a permanent standing army, but he was the first brave Muslim ruler to abolish the age old administrative tradition of Iqta system initiated by Iltutmish and started paying them salary in cash.
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Prior to independence on March 6, 1957, Ghana was called the Gold Coast. The earliest Europeans to set foot on the land were the Portuguese in the 15th century (1471). On their arrival, they found so much gold between the rivers Ankobra and the Volta that they named the area “da Mina”, meaning “The Mine”.
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Kabuliyat and Patta as instruments of settlement were introduced during the reign of __: - GKToday. Pathan Sultan Sher Shah Suri (1540 – 1545) measured and classified the land in terms of the produce and introduced Kabuliyat and Patta as instruments of settlement.
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Some of the important historical Mesopotamian leaders were Ur-Nammu (king of Ur), Sargon of Akkad (who established the Akkadian Empire), Hammurabi (who established the Old Babylonian state), Ashur-uballit II and Tiglath-Pileser I (who established the Assyrian Empire).
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History of discovery. The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange, at a site he called Ophir. Hargraves had been to the Californian goldfields and had learned new gold prospecting techniques such as panning and cradling.
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The Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India was the first recorded trip made directly from Europe to India via the Cape of Good Hope, in the Atlantic Ocean. It was undertaken under the command of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama during the reign of King Manuel I in 1495–1499.
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According to the Puranas and the Ramayana epic, Ayodhya was the capital of Kosala during the reign of Ikshvaku and his descendants. Shravasti is recorded as the capital of Kosala during the Mahajanapada period (6th–5th centuries BCE), but post-Maurya (2nd–1st centuries BCE) kings issued their coins from Ayodhya.
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Yaduraya Wodeyar (1399–1423) was the first Maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore. Initially, the Wodeyar family served as a vassal state of the Vijayanagara Empire.
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First Battle of Panipat (1526) The First Battle of Panipat was fought between the invading forces of Babur and the Lodi Empire, which took place on 21 April 1526 in North India. It marked the beginning of the Mughal Empire. This was one of the earliest battles involving gunpowderfirearms and field artillery.
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Nizam, shortened from Nizam-ul-Mulk, meaning Administrator of the Realm, was the title inherited by Asaf Jah I. He was the viceroy of the Great Mughal in the Deccan, the premier courtier in Mughal India in 1724, and the founding "Nizam of Hyderabad".
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Rockefeller, America's first billionaire, ranked seventh. But the richest man in history, according toMoney, is Mansa Musa, the king of Timbuktu, who lived between 1280 and 1337. Timbuktu was the largest producer of gold at a time when gold was in huge demand, the magazine said.