The Early Humans

The Early Humans

Q.1. Where was the origin of mankind?

Q.2. Who are called Anthropoids?

Q.3. What is the stone age and what are its divisions?

Q.4. Give the extent of the Paleolithic Age?

Q.5. Give the extent of the Mesolithic Age?

Q.6. Give the extent of the Neolithic Age?

Q.7. Describe the Paleolithic Age?

Q.8. Which two types of tools were made by early man?

Q.9. What were core tools?

Q.10. What were flake tools?

Q.11. How was the fire discovered? What were its uses?

Q.12. Describe the Mesolithic Age?

Q.13. What was the food of Mesolithic people?

Q.14. Which animals were tamed by the people of the Mesolithic Age?

Q.15. Which was the first animal tamed by man?

Q.16. Where are the remains of the Paleolithic Age found in India?

Q.17. Where are the remains of the Mesolithic Age found in India?

Q.18. Describe the Neolithic Age?

Q.19. Which tools were used by people of the Neolithic Age?

Q.20. Where are the remains of the Neolithic Age found in India?

Q.21. What are the two main achievements of the man of the Neolithic Age?

Q.22. Which tools were invented by people of the Neolithic Age and for what purpose?

Q.23. Which fabrics were used by people of the Neolithic Age?

Q.24. What was used by people of the Neolithic age to carve statues?

Q.25. Which invention of the people of the Neolithic Age was used in transport?

Q.26. Wheel was used by people of the Neolithic Age for what purpose?

Q.27. What are the benefits of baking the clay pots?

Q.28. Which metal was discovered by the man first?

Q.29. Which period was known as the Chalcolithic period?

Q.30. Which period was a step toward the development of civilization?

Q.31. Explain the beginning of farming?

Q.32. Which cereals were first grown?

Q.33. Describe the beginning of settled life and early villages?

Q.34. Explain the beginning of herding?

Q.35. Which animals provide milk to people of stone age?

Q.36. Which animals were used for riding and ploughing the field in the stone age?

Q.37. Which product of animals were used as clothes?

Q.38. What is the importance of Mehrgarh?

 

People and their History

 People and their history

Q.1. Write about the origin of the word ‘history’.

Q.2. What is history?

Q.3. What are the divisions of history?

Q.4. What do you mean by pre-history?

Q.5. What do you mean by proto history?

Q.6. What is the importance of history?

Q.7. What kind of knowledge is given by history about our human culture and civilization?

Q.8. What are the sources of history?

Q.9. Which are the two categories of sources of history?

Q.10. What are the archaeological sources of history?

Q.11. What is archaeology and who are archaeologists?

Q.12. What forms the archaeological sources of history?

Q.13. What are inscriptions?

Q.14. What is epigraphy?

Q.15. How do coins help to know history?

Q.16. Which materials were used in history to mint coins?

Q.17. What is the study of coins called?

Q.18. How are monuments a source of history?

Q.19. How are tools and implements a source of history?

Q.20. How is pottery a source of history?

Q.21. How are skeleton and fossil remains a source of history?

Q.22. What are literary sources?

Q.23. What are manuscripts?

Q.24. Which knowledge is given by manuscripts?

Q.25. Name the religious literature of Hindus, Buddhism and Jains?

Q.26. What knowledge is imparted by religious literature?

Q.27. Which non-religious literature is part of history?

Q.28. What knowledge is imparted by non-religious literature?

Q.29. What are the constituents of historical literature?

Q.30. Which are the two types of time period in history?

Q.31. Explain BC?

Q.32. Explain AD?

Q.33. Explain the historical settlements along the banks of Narmada?

Q.34. Explain the historical settlement in areas along the Sulaiman and Kirthar hills?

Q.35. Where was rice first cultivated?

Q.36. Explain the historical settlement along the banks of the Ganga and its tributaries?

Q.37. How did the name India come into being?

Q.38. How did the name Bharat come into being?

Q.39. How did the name Hindu come into being?