Lets Revise- Chapter 5 Introducing the past

The calender which we use today is called the ____________ calender.

• new

• old

• Gregorian

• Millimeter

The period before the birth of Christ is represented as _____________.

• Common Era

• CE

• Before Common Era

• History

The word history has been taken from the __________ word historia.

• hindi

• sanskirt

• Spanish

• latin

The person who studies or writes about history is called a _______________.

• person

• scholar

• historian

• engineer

_____________________ is a period of time in history before information was written down.

• Prehistory

• history

• vedic age

• ancient

The Mahabharata and the Ramayana were written during ___________ period.

• ancient

• medieval

• modern

• none of these

Chandragupta Maurya founded the ___________ dynasty.

• Gupta

• Mauryan

• Aryans

• none of these

Babur founded _________ dynasty.

• Mughal

• new

• chola

• gupta

The monument shown in this picture is built by_____________.

• Britishers

• Shah Jahan

• Babur

• Rajendra Chola I

India finally gained independence from the British rule on _____________________.

• 26th January 1947

• 2nd October 1947

• 15th August 1947

• 25th December 1947