Class 6th Social Science History Chapter 2 : On The Trial of the Earliest People Ncert Solutions




1. Complete the sentences:

     (a) Hunter-gatherers chose to live in caves and rock shelters because.............

     (b) Grasslands developed around……….. years ago.

     (c) Early people painted on the……… of caves.

     (d) In Hunsgi, tools were made of……….

Solution:

  1. they wanted to protect themselves from wild animals and bad weather.
  2. 12,000
  3. walls
  4. limestone


2. Why do people who grow crops have to stay in the same place for a long time?

Solution:

When people grow crops they have to have to stay in the same place for a long time to take care of the plants by watering, weeding, driving away animals and birds and finally storing the grains after harvesting. 


3. Why do archaeologists think that many people who lived in Mehrgarh were hunters to start with and that herding became more important later?

Solution:

Archaeologists found the bones of many wild animals such as deer and pig at the earlier levels. This was used as evidence that many people who lived in Mehrgarh were hunters to start with. But later on, herding became important for them as bones of sheep and goats were found at the later levels.


4. Why did the hunter-gatherers travel from place to place? In what ways are these similar to/different from the reasons for which we travel today?

Solution : Reasons :

  1. They would have eaten up all the plant and animal resources.
  2. Animals move from place to place, hence they had to follow their movements
  3. Plants and trees bear fruits in different seasons. So, people may have moved from season to season, in search of different kinds of plants.
  4. They need water to survive and many rivers and lakes were seasonal. So, they had to go in search of water during dry seasons.


5. List three ways in which hunter-gatherers used fire (see page 15). Would you use fire for any of these purposes today?

Solution :

It was primarily used for 3 purposes.

  1. Clearing forest area
  2. Cooking
  3. For protection from wild animals

Nowadays, we use fire for:

  1. To keep ourselves warm
  2. Cooking


6. List 3 ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from that of hunter-gatherers.

Solution :

  1. Farmers and herders would stay in one location; whereas hunter-gatherers would have to move from place to place, following the movement of animals.
  2. Farmers and herders would stay in huts or houses, whereas hunter-gatherers would stay in caves.
  3. For farmers and herders, the food source would be crops and domesticated animals like sheep, goat; whereas hunters would rely on wild animals as a source of food.



 

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