What Where How And When - Class 6 History - Extra Questions

Archaeologists study the remains of buildings made of stone and brick, paintings and sculpture. They also explore and excavate to find tools, weapons, pots, pans, ornaments and coins of the past. Historians, that is, scholars who study the past, often use the word source to refer to the information found from manuscripts, inscriptions and archaeology. Once sources are found, past is reconstructed bit by bit. So historians and archaeologists are like detectives, who use all these sources like clues to find out about our pasts.

The word India comes from the river Indus, called Sindhu in Sanskrit. The Iranians and the Greeks who came through the northwest about 2500 years ago and were familiar with the Indus, they called it the Hindos or the Indos, and the land to the east of the river was called India.

The people of the Sulaiman and Kirthar hills reared animals like sheep, goat, and cattle.

People have lived along the banks of Narmada river for several hundred thousand years. Some of the earliest people who lived here were skilled gatherers, that is, people who gathered their food. They knew about the vast wealth of plants in the surrounding forests, and collected roots, fruits and other forest produce for their food. They also hunted animals.

There were many objects that were made and used in the past. Those who study these objects are called archaeologists.They study the remains of buildings made of stone and brick, paintings and sculpture. They also explore and excavate to find tools, weapons, pots, pans, ornaments and coins. Some of these objects may be made of stone, others of bone, baked clay or metal. Archaeologists also look for bones of animals, birds, and fish to find out what people ate in the past.

Manuscripts were usually written on palm leaf, or on the specially prepared bark of a tree known as the birch, which grows in the Himalayas.

People travelled from one part of the subcontinent to another. The hills and high mountains including the Himalayas, deserts, rivers and seas made journeys dangerous at times, but never impossible. Men and women moved in search of livelihood, as also to escape from natural disasters like floods or droughts. Men marched in armies, conquering other lands. Merchants travelled with caravans or ships, carrying valuable goods from place to place. Religious teachers walked from village to village, town to town to offer instruction and advice. Some people were driven by a spirit of adventure, wanting to discover new places.

Garo hills are located in the north-east of India. It is one of the places where early agriculture developed.

South Asia is called a subcontinent because although it is smaller than a continent, it is still very large, and is separated from the rest of Asia by seas, hills and mountains like the Himalayas.

Bimbetka- Madhya Pradesh
Hunsgi- Karnataka
Kumoo- Andhra Pradesh
Tushar's train would have passed near Bhimbetka, Hunsgi and Kurnool, since they all lie on the possible train route from Delhi to Chennai.

Tools in Hunsgi were made from limestone which was available locally.