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Hand written text on palm leaves

• Inscription

• Hand texts

• Manuscript

The word India comes from

• Indus

• Iran

• Sanskrit

People who study about objects of the past are known as

• Historian

• Archaeologist

• Inscription

What does Indus mean in Sanskrit

• Hindos

• Hindro

• Sindhu

.................... are written records on relatively hard surfaces such as stone or metal.

• Manuscript

• Inscription

• Archaeology

The word 'Manu' means

• Head

• Hard

• Hand

Which of the following was the area where people cultivated rice for the first time?

• Garo hills

• Sulaiman and Kirthar hills

• North of the Vindhyas

The earliest cities along the river Indus flourished about.............. years ago

• 4700

• 2000

• 3700

................. is the study of the remains of building made of stone and brick, painting and sculpture.

• Scholars

• Archaeologist

• Detective

.................. is the first big kingdom located to the South of the Ganga

• Vindhyas

• Magadha

• Garo hills