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WorksheetsWhat, Where, How and When? - 1
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 19mins
The places where rice was first grown are to the north of the (a)
Which is the earliest composition in Sanskrit?
Samaveda
Yajurveda
Rigveda
Atharvaveda
Along the river _______ people lived for several hundred thousand years.
Narmada
Tapi
Krishna
Kaveri
____ is a town on the north coast of Egypt.
Rosetta
Cairo
Giza
Aswan
People who gathered their food are called gatherers.
True
False
The kingdom of Magadha was located in the areas along Ganga’s tributaries in the North of Ganga.
True
False
Prakrit was the language used by ordinary people.
True
False
Name one tributary of Ganga.
(a)
River Ganga was addressed as Indos or Hindos by the Iranians and Greeks.
True
False
What is the meaning of Indus in Sanskrit?
(a)
ICICI Bank
Indian Credit and Investment Corporation of Industries
International Credit and Investment Corporation of India
Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
Investment Credit and Industrial Corporation of India
Write the full form of BCC.
(a)
Write the full form of CE.
(a)
Write the full form of AD.
(a)
When did agriculture begin?
Agriculture began 8000 years ago
Agriculture began 12000 years ago
Agriculture began 14000 years ago
Name any two animals that people of the Sulaiman and Kirthar hills reared.
Sheep
Goat
Cattle
Lions
Who are historians?
Historian are scholars
Historians study and write about the past
Historians are detectives
Historians learn languages
What do you understand by tributaries? What is the first statement of this video?
Tributaries are smaller rivers that flow into a larger river.
Triburary is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river
A tributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a mainstream channel.
The Triburary is the body of salt water which covers approximately 71% of the surface of the Earth
Where does the word India come from?
The word India comes from the Indus, called Sindhu in Sanskrit.
India is also called Bharat or Hindustan.
Since ancient times our nation has been termed as Bharat
The Indus River running through northwest India into Pakistan
What do you mean by manuscript?
Digital book created during the Middle Ages
Manuscript means any book or document written by hand.
Printed book created during the Middle Ages
...................... are writings engraved on hard surfaces like metal, rock and stone
Numismatic evidence/coins
Archaeological evidence
Inscriptions
Portraits
Where were manuscripts preserved?
Manuscripts were often preserved in temples and monasteries.
Manuscripts were often preserved in Libraries
MANUSCRIPTS ARE PRESERVED IN ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL LIBRARIES TODAY
Manuscripts are digitally preserved
What information do we get from Bones of animals?
Bones of animals, birds, and fish tells what people ate in the Past.
The bones refers to the frames of support of animal bodies
We can know if the woolly mammoth really existed
Bones of humans and other remains help us to reconstruct the pas
Name the ruler whose inscription has been found from Kandahar.
Ashoka’s inscription
Akbar's inscription
Samuragupta's inscription
Kittur Chennamma's inscription
Which hills are located to the north-east (Meghalaya) of the Vindhyas in central India
North of the Vindhyas
Sulaiman hills
On the banks of the Ganga
Garo hills
The word source refers to the information found from:
manuscripts
inscriptions
archaeology
Movies
What was the advantage of writing on a hard surface?
The writing on a hard surface do not get destroyed easily, hence survives for long period of time.
Chinese scholars wrote on bamboo stalks as long ago as 500 BCE. The scholars used small knives to scrape away mistakes. These knives became a symbol of political stature, as the owners had the power to change records.
Birch bark was used in medieval Russia for school exercises, personal letters and business ledgers.
Oracles carved questions onto the bone or shell, then applied heat until it cracked.
Religious teachers walked from ________, town to town, stopping to offer _______ and advice on the way.
village to village
instruction
hill to hill
caves to caves
One can know what had happened so many years ago through _______, ________ and ________.
manuscripts
inscriptions
objects found in excavations
newspapers
