History Class 6th - What, Where, How and When?

- Questions

Q10. Who are historians?

Q1. Fill in the blanks.
i. The places where rice was first grown are to the north Q11. What do you understand by tributaries?
of the_______.
ii. ____________is the earliest composition in Sanskrit. Q12. Where does the word India come from?
iii. Along the river ____________people lived for several
hundred thousand years. Q13. What do you mean by manuscript?
iv. ______________is a town on the north coast of Egypt.
Q14. What are inscriptions?
Q2. True/False
i. People who gathered their food are called Q15. Where were manuscripts preserved?
gatherers. _________
ii. The kingdom of Magadha was located in the areas along Q16. What information do we get from Bones of animals?
Ganga’s tributaries in the North of Ganga._________
iii. Prakrit was the language used by ordinary Q17. Name the ruler whose inscription has been found from
people. _________ Kandahar.
iv. River Ganga was addressed as Indos or Hindos by the
Iranians and Greeks.________ Q18. Where are Garo hills located?

Q3. Name one tributary of Ganga. Q19. What is source?

Q4. What is the meaning of Indus in Sanskrit? Q20. What was the advantage of writing on a hard surface?

Q5. Write the full form of BC. Q21. What do religious teachers do in the past?

Q6. Write the full form of CE. Q22. How could anyone know what had happened so many years
ago?
Q7. Write the full form of AD. Q23. Why do men and women moved from one subcontinent to
another?
Q8. When did agriculture begin?
Q24. What do people of Andaman Islands do to earn their living?
Q9. Name any two animals that people of the Sulaiman and Kirthar
hills reared.

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 History Class 6th - What, Where, How and When? - Questions

Q39. Describe at least two ways in which you think the lives of kings
Q25. What is Cartouche? would have been different from those of farmers.

Q26. Where manuscripts were usually written? Q40. Who are archaeologists and what they study?

Q27. How is the life of people living in city different from people Q41. Make a list of all the objects that archaeologists may find.
living in the Andaman Island? Which of these could be made of stone?

Q28. Who gave the name India to our country? Q42. Why are archaeologists and historian like detectives?

Q29. Where was the kingdom of Magadha located? Q43. Why was travelling so important in the past?

Q30. How many languages were inscribed on stone found in Rosetta? Q44. What are the different ways to find out about the past?

Q31. Name some areas where women and men first began to grow
crops such as wheat and barley?

Q32. In ancient times, people travelled from one part of the

subcontinent to another. What kind of danger they used to face
during their journey?

Q33. Why do you think ordinary men and women did not generally
keep records of what they did?

Q34. What led to the sharing of ideas between people?

Q35. Why were inscriptions used?

Q36. Write a note about the people who lived along the banks of
river Narmada for several hundred thousand years?
Q37. What do the terms B.C. and A.D. mean?

Q38. Differentiate between manuscripts and inscriptions.

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