🔆 Sangam Age: Key Highlights

📍 Titles of Sangam Dynasties
✅ Chola – Senni, Valavan, Killi
✅ Pandya – Thennavar, Minavar, Panchavar
✅ Cheras – Vanavar, Villavar, Kuttavar

📍 Village Administration
✅ Manram – Village assemblies managing local affairs
✅ Urs – Town
✅ Perur – Large villages
✅ Sirur – Small villages

📍 Trade & Ports (Periplus of the Erythraean Sea)
✅ Noura – Kannur
✅ Tyndis – Ponnani
✅ Muziris – Kodungallur
✅ Nelcynda – Kottayam
✅ Colchi – Korkai
✅ Camara – Kaveripattanam
✅ Poduka/Arikamedu – Pondicherry

📍 Major Trade & Industry
✅ Madurai & Uraiyur – Important textile centers
✅ Korkai – Center for pearl trade

📍 Land Classification by Fertility
✅ Marudam – Most fertile land
✅ Menpulam – Fertile land
✅ Pinpulam – Dry land
✅ Vanpulam – Hard land
✅ Kalaṇilam/Uvanilam – Salty land

📍 Market System
✅ Angadi – The market
✅ Nalangadi – Morning bazaar
✅ Allangadi – Evening bazaar

📍 Society & Culture
✅ Occupational Castes – Panar, Eyinar, Pulaiyar
✅ Devarinda – Term for a group of five gods: Murugan, Shiva, Krishna, Balarama, and Indra
✅ Karikala – Known as the Master of 7 notes of music
✅ Utharamerur Inscription – Provides insights into local self-government under the Cholas

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