WorksheetsTRACING CHANGES THROUGH A THOUSAND YEARS
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who is a 'Cartographer'
A research scientist
Someone who makes maps
A chef
A person who excavates
Who was the Arab geographer who made the map of the subcontinent
(a)
What did the term 'Hindustan' mean when it was used in the thirteenth century by Minhaj-i-Siraj,
the areas of Punjab, Haryana
Ganga and Yamuna region
North India
the areas of Punjab, Haryana and the lands
between the Ganga and Yamuna.
In the early sixteenth century (a) used Hindustan to
describe the geography, the fauna and the culture of
the inhabitants of the subcontinent.
A place where documents are stored or preserved is called (a)
Who were 'Scribes'
kings and Queens
Soldiers fighting for the king
scribes copied manuscripts by hand.
royal priests
What was the most common problem when scribes were involved in writing history.
Misinterpret the text
Destroy records/material
Wrote incorrect information
introduced small changes
– a word here, a sentence there.
(a) paintings were sometimes used to illustrate the texts of manuscripts.
(a) wrote his chronicle first in 1356 and
another version two years later.
One group of people who became important in this period were the _______________, a name derived from “Rajaputra”, the son of a ruler.
Brahmins
Kshatriya
Rajputs
Warriors
