WHAT, WHERE, HOW AND WHEN?

WHAT, WHERE, HOW AND WHEN?

How did you spend your holidays?

What were your favourite pastimes?

What can we know about the past?

Where did people live?

Identify this landform

people lived near this source .why?

People have lived along the banks of this river for several hundred thousand years.

Some of the earliest people who lived here were skilled gatherers, — that is, people who gathered their food.They also hunted animals

Do people still live in this manner even now? If yes,mention the places.

Some of the areas where women and men first began to grow crops such as wheat and barley.

People also began rearing animals like sheep, goat, and cattle, and lived in villages. 

Sulaiman and Kirthar hills to the northwest.

The places where rice was first grown are to the north of the Vindhyas.

Some of the earliest cities flourished on the banks of these rivers.

Can you name the rivers?

Locate Ganga and its tributary called the

Son.

In ancient times the area along these rivers
to the south of the Ganga was known as Magadha now lying in the state of Bihar.

Its rulers were verypowerful, and set up a large kingdom.

People travelled from one part of

the subcontinent to another.

Why do people travel nowadays ?

What are the different names we use for our country?

How did we get the name Bharat?

Manuscripts

manuscripts, were written by hand These were usually written on palm leaf,or on the specially prepared bark of a tree known

as the birch, which grows in the Himalayas.

Inscriptions

These are writings on relatively hard surfaces such as stone or metal. Sometimes, kings got their orders inscribed so that people could see, read and obey them.

Archaeological Sources

Buildings made of stone and brick,

paintings and sculpture. Tools, weapons, pots, pans, ornaments and

coins. .