Class 6 Social Science History Chapter 1 : What, Where, How and When? : NCERT Solutions

 1.Match the following

Narmada Valley	The first big kingdom
Magadha	Hunting and gathering
Garo Hills	Cities about 2500 years ago
Indus and its tributaries	Early agriculture
Ganga valley	The first cities

Answer :

Narmada Valley	Hunting and gathering
Magadha	The first big kingdom
Garo Hills	Early agriculture
Indus and its tributaries	The first cities
Ganga valley	Cities about 2500 years ago

2.List one major difference between manuscripts and inscriptions.

Answer:

Manuscripts – They were written by hand, these were usually written on palm leaves or on the specially prepared bark of a tree known as The Birch, which grows in the Himalayas.

Inscriptions – These are writings engraved on relatively hard surfaces such as stone or metal.

3. Return to Rasheeda’s question. Can you think of some answers to it?

Answer:

One can think of 4 different ways

1. Inscriptions
2. Manuscripts
3. Tools and weapons
4. Reading the books written in the past.

4. Make a list of all objects that archaeologists may find. Which of these could be made of stone?

Answer:

The findings of Archaeologists could be of 9 different types.

1. Buildings made of stone and brick

2. Paintings

3. Sculpture

4. Tools

5. Weapons

6. Pots

7. Pans

8. Ornaments

9. Coins

The objects that could be made up of stones are given below

1. Buildings

2. Tools

3. Weapons

4. Ornaments

5. Why do you think ordinary men and women did not generally keep records of what they did?

Answer:
We think ordinary men and women did not generally keep records of what they did due to the following reasons:

1. They did not know the art of writing in the beginning.
2. Even some of them were not literate even after the knowledge of the script.
3. They were not having an interest in such works.
4. They did not know the importance of keeping records of the events. The lack of historical sense was mainly responsible for it.

6. Describe at least two ways in which you think the lives of kings would have been different from those of farmers.

Answer:  1. Kings had absolute power over all his subjects, irrespective of their profession, farmers had                           no such powers.

                  2. Kings lived in palaces. Farmers had no such opportunities.

                 3. The King was responsible for protecting his kingdom by waging battles, whereas the farmers’                        responsibilities were to grow crops.

Multiple Choice Questions

Choose the correct option to complete the statements given below:

(i) People who gathered their food are called……………….
(a) hunters
(b) skilled gatherers
(c) farmers
(d) merchants.

(ii) The places where rice was first grown are located in ………………
(a) north of the Vindhyas
(b) Sulaiman hills
(c) on the banks of the Ganga
(d) the Gaxo hills.

(iii) …… was not used in the old books.
(a) Prakrit
(b) Hindi
(c) Sanskrit
(d) Tamil

(iv) The kingdom of Magadha was located ……………
(a) on the banks of the Indus
(b) in the south of the Vindhyas
(c) in the area along Ganga’s tributaries in the south of Ganga.
(d) in the Garo hills region.

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words to complete each sentence:

1. Men and women moved in search of……………… and to escape from …………..
2. The name India was given by the Iranians and the ………………
3. The bark of the birch tree was used to prepare………………
4. Inscriptions were written on hard surfaces like………………
5. Travelling from one place to another led to ……………..

Answers:

1. livelihood, natural disasters
2. Greeks
3. manuscripts
4. (stone/metal
5. sharing of ideas.