S.S.T CHAPTER NO.1 – What Where How And When HISTORY|Worksheet|geniustudent|

Question 1 -Answer in word 

1. The place where rice were first grown.
2. The area along the south of of Ganga .
3. The earliest composition in Sanskrit.
4. The language used by used by ordinary people.
5. Manuscripts were usually written on.

Question 2 – Very short answers

1. Where are the Garo hills located?
2. What are tributaries ? Give examples ?
3. From where does word India come ?
4. What were the occupation of the people of Andaman Islands ?
5. Who were the skilled gathers ?

 

Question 3 – Answer the following questions

1. What is History ? Why do we need to study history ?
2. Give two two examples of inscriptions of ancient India ? 
3. Who are archaeologists ? What they do ?
4. How you can say that historians and archaeologists are like detectives ?
5. How was travelling an important part life of people in the past ? 
6. What are the different ways to find out about past ?

ANSWERS OF WORKSHEET

Ans 1. – 

1. The place where rice were first grown. Vindhyas
2. The area along the south of of Ganga .Magadha
3. The earliest composition in Sanskrit.(Vedas)Rigveda
4. The language used by used by ordinary people.Prakrit
5. Manuscripts were usually written on. Palm leaf or bark of trees

 

Ans 2. –

1.Where are the Garo hills located?

Ans –The North east of India

2.What are tributaries ? Give examples ?

Ans –Tributaries are small rivers that flow into small a large river .

3.From where does word India come ?

Ans –The word India comes from Indus .

4.What were the occupation of the people of Andaman Islands ?

Ans –Fishing hunting and collecting forests products .

5.Who were the skilled gathers ?

Ans – People who gathered their food and knew about the vast wealth of plants in the surrounding forests and collect roots , fruits and other forests and collect roots , fruits and other forest produce for thier food are called skilled gathers .

Ans 3. –

1.What is History ? Why do we need to study history ?

(i) It is study of past.

(ii) It tells us about what people did and how they lived

Reasons to study history :-

1. It gives us identity
2. Educates and aware us from the mistakes done by our ancestors in past
3. By studying the past , we understand our present better
4. It makes us more open minded

2.Give two two examples of inscriptions of ancient India ? 

Ans – 1. Ajanta Ellora Caves at Maharashtra .

2. Ashoka pillars at Sarnath .

3.Who are archaeologists ? What they do ?

Ans – People who study the physical remains  to know about the past . They find about past ?

4.How you can say that historians and archaeologists are like detectives ?

Ans – Historians and archaeologists are like detectives because historians find out about past through the various remains of past as clues like a detective .

5.How was travelling an important part life of people in the past ? 

Ans – Travelling was an important part life of people in the past because people wanted to know about the world .

6.What are the different ways to find out about past ?

Ans – There are several ways of finding about past . One is to search for and read books .That were written long ago . These are called Manuscript . We can also find about past by inscriptions . These are written on relativity hard surfaces such as stones . Kings orders to inscribed so that people could see  the kings rules and obey them Now the archaeologists  find about past through inscriptions and manuscript .