CLASS 6th NCERT WHAT WHERE AND WHEN .pptx

CLASS 6th NCERT WHAT WHERE AND WHEN .pptx

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  WHAT, WHERE, HOW AND WHEN? CLASS6TH
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  What Can WeKnow About the Past?  What people used to eat, the type of clothes they used to wear, the houses in which they lived.  The lives of hunters, herders, farmers, rulers, merchants, priests, craftspersons, artists, musicians, and scientists.  The games children used to play, the stories they heard, and the songs they sang.
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  Where Did PeopleLive?  People have lived along the banks of the Narmada River for several hundred thousand years. These people stayed on the bank of the Narmada River as they knew about the vast wealth of plants in the surrounding forests. They used to collect roots, fruits, and other forest produce for their food. Sometimes they also hunted animals.  The area where women and men first began to grow crops such as wheat and barley was about 8000 years ago.  People also began to look after animals like sheep, goats, and cattle and used to live in villages.  The places where rice was first grown are to the north of the Vindhyas.  About 2500 years ago, cities developed on the banks of the Ganga and its tributaries and along the sea coasts.
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  Names of theLand  The word India comes from the Indus, called Sindhu in Sanskrit. The Iranians and the Greeks who came through the northwest about 2500 years ago called it the Hindos or the Indos, and the land to the east of the river was called India.  The name Bharata was used for a group of people who lived in the northwest and who are mentioned in the Rigveda, the earliest composition in Sanskrit (dated about 3500 years ago). Later it was used for the country.
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  Finding Out Aboutthe Past One way through which we can find out about our past is by reading books that were written long ago. These books are called manuscripts because they were written by hand. These were written on palm leaves or on the specially prepared bark of a tree known as the birch, which grows in the Himalayas. These books dealt with all kinds of subjects: religious beliefs and practices, the lives of kings, medicine and science. Besides, there were epics, poems, and plays as well.
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  Inscriptions Inscriptions are writingson relatively hard surfaces such as stone or metal. In the past, when kings wanted their orders inscribed so that people could see, read and obey them, they used inscriptions for this purpose. There are other kinds of inscriptions as well, where men and women (including kings and queens) recorded what they did. For example, records of victories in battle.
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  Archaeologists  An archaeologistis a person who studies the remains of buildings made of stone and brick, paintings and sculptures. They also explore and excavate to find tools, weapons, pots, pans, ornaments and coins. They also look for bones of animals, birds, and fish to find out what people ate in the past.  Historians use the word source to refer to the information found in manuscripts, inscriptions and archaeology. Once sources are found, learning about the past becomes an adventure. So historians and archaeologists are like detectives who use all sources, like clues, to find out about our pasts.
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  What Do DatesMean? The years are counted from the date of the birth of Jesus Christ. All dates before the birth of Christ are counted backwards and usually have the letters BC (Before Christ) added on. In this book, we will refer to dates going back from the present, using 2000 as our starting point. 2000 means 2000 years after the birth of Christ.
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  Consider the followingstatements : i. All inscriptions contain only scripts. ii. Inscriptions are inscribed on hard surfaces. Choose the correct option from the codes given below: Only i Only ii Both i and ii NOTA
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  Which river’s bankdid the people live along in the ancient time? Ganga Narmada Sutluj NOTA
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  On which river’sbank were the cities developed about 2500 years ago? Ganga Yamuna Narmada
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  Which city wasestablished on the banks of Ganga? Magadha Vindhyas Both (a) and (b)
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  Where were themanuscripts written? On peepal leaf On palm leaf On banana leaf On tulsi leaf