Chapter 1. What, Where, How and When History class 6 in English Medium ncert book solutions Additional Questions

Additional Question:

Que: What do you know about the lacation of the Sulaiman and Kirthar hills.

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Where are the sulaiman and kirthar hills located?

Ans: The Sulaiman and Kirthar hills are located in the modem day Pakistan. 

Que: Name any two animals which the people of the Sulaiman and kirthar hills reared.

Ans: Sheep and goat.

Que: Where are the Garo hills located?

Ans: The Garo hills are in the north - east of india.

Que: What are tributaries?

Ans: Tributaries are smaller rivers that flow into a bigger river.

Que: Name the tributary of the river Ganga.

Ans: Son.

Que: Where was Magadha located?

Ans: Magadha was located in the south of the Ganga.

Que: Why was Magadha famous?

Ans: Magadha was famous because its mlers were very powerful who established a big kingdom.

Que: What was the job of religious teachers?

Ans: Religious teachers moved from one place to another to offer instruction and advice to the people who met n the way.

Que: From where does the world india come?

Ans: The world India comes from rthe Indus, known as Sindhu in Sanskrit.

Que: What is meants by the manuscript?

Ans: manuscript is a hand - written matter.

Que: What was used in ancient times to write manuscripts?

Ans: Plam leaf or the bark of the birch tree was used in ancient rtimes to write manuscripts.

Que: What are inscriptions?

Ans: Inscriptions are writings on relavely hard surface like stone or metal.

Que: Wy do archaeologists look for bones of animals, birds, and fish.

Ans: They do so in order to find out what people ate in the past.

Que: What are the occupations of the people of the Andaman Islands?

Ans: The people o the Andaman Islands are engaged in fishing, hunting, and collecting forest produce.

Que: What do you know about the earliest people who lived along the banks of river Narmada for several hunderd thousand years?

Ans: Those people were skilled gatherers. They gathered their food. They also collected roots, fruits and other forest produce for their food. they also hunted animals foe this purpose. 

Que: People in the earliest times used to travel from one place to another. but their journeys were full of dangers. What type of dangers did they face?

Ans: It is true that people in the earliest times used to travel from this place to that. But their journerys were dangerous. The hills, and high mountains including the Himalayas, deserts, rivers and seas created dangers for them. but they never got afraid of them. Instead they overcame them and continued to travel. 

Que: Who are archaeologist? what do they do?

Ans: Arachaeologists are persons who study the objects of the past. They study the remains of the buildings made of stone and brick, paintings and sculpture. They also explore and dig the earth in order to find out tools, weapons, pots, pans, ornamnts and coins. 

Que: How are city different from the people living in the Andman Islands?

Ans: People livingm in the Andaman Islands manage their own food by fishing, hunting and collecting forest produce. On the other hand city, people depend on others for supplies of food.

Que: How can you say that historians and archaeologists are like detectives.

Ans: Historians often use the world source to refer to the information from manuscripts, inscriptions and archaelogy. Once source are found from manuscripts, inscriptions nad archaeology. Once sources are found, learning about the past becomes an adventure, as we reconstruct it bit. So, historians and archaeologists are like detectives who use all these sources like clues to discover the past. 

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