Tracing Changes Through A Thousand Years

Who was the Arab geographer who made the map of the subcontinent?

• Amir Khusro

• Al Idrisi

• Guliemi

who wrote his chronicles first in 1356 then revised another version two years later?

• Babur

• Amir Khusro

• Ziyauudin Barani

The most common problem when scribes were involved while writing history

• texts were incorrect

• introduced small changes a word here, a sentence there

• destroyed records or materials

In which century Babur used Hindustan to describe geography of subcontinent?

• 17th century

• 18th century

• 16th century

Why do historians today have to be careful about the terms in the past?

• Because they do not know the meaning of terms

• Because the terms may have more than one meaning

• Because the terms meant different in the past

In which period did the number and variety of textual records increase dramatically?

• 700 to 800

• 800 to 1000

• 700 to 1750

who was considered a foreigner in the past?

• any stranger who was not a part of that village

• citizen of that village

• citizen sharing same culture

The term 'Rajput' was derived from

• Rajaputra

• Rajya

• Rajasthan

Which was the most dominant group in the society?

• Kshyatriyas

• Brahmanas

• Traders

Ghiyasuddin Balban was the sultan of

• Awadh

• Delhi

• Hyderabad