CHAPTER: - WHAT
WHERE HOW AND WHEN?
SHORT QUESTION ANSWER
Q1: Name a
important river along which People lived for several hundred thousand years.
Q2: According to
the given inscription in the chapter, the word 'bird' stands for__________.
Q3: According to
the given inscriptions, the word 'lion' stands for___________.
Q4: What is
Cartouche?
Q5: List the number
of languages inscribed on the stone of Rosetta.
Q6: Where is
Rosetta located?
Q7: What is the
full form of BCE?
Q8: What is the
full form of AD?
Q9: What is the
full form of CE?
Q10: All dates
before the birth of Christ are counted backwards and are usually referred as BC
Q11: What was the
source of food for most of the people living in Andaman Islands?
Q12: What is an
inscription?
Q13: Name the leaf
on which Manuscripts in Ancient period were usually written?
Q14: Define
Archaeology.
Q15: Name the language
which was not used in the Ancient Period.
Q16: How can we say
that the Hindi language which was not used in the Ancient Period?
Q17: Rig veda
contains the earliest compositions in Sanskrit, dated about 3500 years ago.
True/False
Q18: What do we call
to the area along the river Ganga and its tributary rivers in the ancient time?
Q19: Where did women
and men first began to cultivate crops such as wheat and barley?
Q20: The manuscripts
are preserved in _________.
Q21: Many
manuscripts were eaten away by insects, some were destroyed. True/False
Q22: What does the
inscription discovered from Rosetta square denotes?
Q23: What evidences
do we get from Bones of animals?
Q24: How many
languages are there in Inscription of Rosetta?
Q25: Name the two
tributaries of the Indus.
Q26: Name the emperor
whose inscription has been found from Kandahar.
Q27: Name the
language in which most of the manuscripts were written.
Q28: What do we call
the information gathered by the historians from inscriptions, manuscripts and
archaeology?
Q29: River Indus was
addressed as Indos or Hindos by the ___________ and _________.
Q30: Name the place
where Sulaiman and Kirthar ranges are located.
Q31: What do we call
the tributary of the Ganga river?
Q32: Inscriptions
were not used for keeping records of victories in battle. True/False
Q33: Why People of
this age travelled from place to place?
Q34: Which is the
best successful example in understanding history through decipherment?
Q35: Name the
direction towards which Rice was first grown in the Vindhyas.
Q36: One can figure
out the specific year of any historical event on the basis of birth
of_____________.
Q37: The times of
kings could be known due to the availability of ____________.
Q38: Why River basin
of river Indus is called sapta saindhav?
Q39: What do we call
specially prepared bark of tree on which manuscripts were written?
Q40: In the
inscription discovered from Rosetta alphabet 'L' is denoted by the image of
____________.
Q41: In the
inscription discovered from Rosetta alphabet 'A' is denoted by the image of a
____________.
Q42: From where do
we get the evidence of rice production for the first time in India?
Q43: What is the
meaning of the term “Indus’ in Sanskrit?
Q44: Who is an
archaeologist?
Q45: What is the
meaning of Indus in Sanskrit?
Q46: Who were
hunter-gatherers?
Q47: How do people
living in the Andaman Islands manage their living?
Q48: What are the
different names of our country?
Q49: Where did
people live in pre-historic times?
Q50: What were the
occupations of the people in early days?
ANSWER
1.
Narmada
2.
A
3.
L
4.
Scholars who could read Greek figured out that
the names of king and queen were enclosed in a little frame called Cartouche
5.
Three
6.
Rosetta is a town on the north coast of Egypt
7.
Before Common Era
8.
Anno Domini
9.
Common Era
10.
True
11.
Fishing, forest products and hunting
12.
Inscriptions are writings on relatively hard
surface such as stone or metal.
13.
Palm leaf
14.
Archaeology is the study of the remains of
buildings (made of stone and brick), of paintings and sculpture.
15.
Hindi
16.
Mostly epics, poems and plays in Ancient period
were written in Sanskrit or Prakrit.
17.
True
18.
Magadha
19.
In Sulaiman and Kirthar hills
20.
Temples
21.
True
22.
Alphabet p
23.
Bones of the animals helped to know the eating
habits of the people.
24.
three languages
25.
Ravi and Jhelum
26.
Ashoka
27.
Sanskrit
28.
A source
29.
Iranians and Greeks
30.
Pakistan
31.
Son
32.
False
33.
To develop agriculture and basic things
34.
The history of Egypt.
35.
North
36.
Jesus
37.
Records
38.
Because it consists of the basin of seven
rivers altogether.
39.
Birch
40.
Lion
41.
Bird
42.
northern part
43.
Hindu
44.
The people who study the objects of the past
45.
Sindhu
46.
The people, who hunted wild animals, caught
fish and birds and gathered fruits, roots, nuts, seeds, leaves and eggs for
their food were called
hunter- gatherers.
47.
People living in the Andaman Islands get their
own food by fishing, hunting and by collecting forest produce.
48.
India, Bharat, Jambudweep and Hindustan.
49.
In the pre-historic times people lived along
the rivers and in the areas with ample plant and animal life
50.
People in early days were hunters, herders,
farmers, rulers, musicians, merchants, priests, craftsmen, artists &
scientists.
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