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Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Who among the following draws maps?
painter
Sailors
Cartographer
Historian
Which region did Al-idrisi belong to?
Arab
France
Germany
Sri Lanka
When did the Mughal empire decline?
18th Century
19th Century
20th century
17th Century
The term 'Hindustan" was first used by whom?
Amir Khusrau
Al-idrisi
Minhaj-i Siraj
Babur
Ziyauddin Barani was a chronicler of which century?
15th
14th
18th
17th
Which of the following are sources of History?
Monuments
Coins
Artefacts and painting
All of the above
What is meant by archaeology?
The study of painting
The study of buildings
The study of politics
The study of remains
Archive was a place where -------- were kept for future reference
Coins
Grains
manuscripts
books
In which period the number and variety of textual records increased dramatically?
600 to 700
700 to 800
800 to 1200
700 to 1750
Through the period of 700 to 1750 which of the following became cheaper?
Paper
Grains
potatoes
Clothes
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
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
