Question
Describe how the chieftains arranged for their defence.
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Answer
- In Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveller from Morocco, Africa, explained that chieftains sometimes
- Fortified themselves in mountains, in rocky, uneven and rugged places as well as in bamboo groves.
- In India the bamboo was not hollow; it was big. Its several parts were so intertwined that even fire could not affect them, and they were on the whole very strong.
- The chieftains lived in these forests which served them as ramparts.
- Inside them were their cattle and their crops.
- There was also water for them within, except rain water which collected there. Hence they could not be subdued except by powerful armies.
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