Chapter 3: In the Earliest Cities
History • Class 6 • Class 6 Our Past I
In the Earliest Cities
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Prelims High-Yield Explanations & Traps
- people took a dip in this tank
- man found
- centre for
- for the Harappans?
- buildings in your city or
- DATES
- for
- megalithic
- DATES
- Agni, the god of fire; Indra,
- that water was stored and supplied to the fields when the plants were growing
Essential Definitions & Formulas
- This
- called the lower town.
- It
- likely that the rulers sent people to distant lands to get metal, precious stones, and other things that they wanted.
- This
- the earliest form of writing known in the subcontinent.
- A specialist is a person who
- trained to do only one kind of work, for example, cutting stone, or polishing beads, or carving seals.
- One shows a toy and the other
- a seal.
- This
- that water was stored and supplied to the fields when the plants were growing.
- This
- a unique find as generally Harappan writing has been found on small objects such as seals.
- The impression of the seal
- known as a sealing.
- Most of Egypt
- a dry desert, except for the lands along the river Nile.
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- part of a family of languages known as Indo-European.
- This
- part of one such hymn, a dialogue between a sage named Vishvamitra, and two rivers, (Beas and Sutlej) that were worshipped as goddesses.
- It
- now preserved in a library in Pune, Maharashtra.
- That
- why the rivers are compared to horses and cows.
- This type of megalith
- known as a cist.
- It
- a site on the river Ghod, a tributary of the Bhima.
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- easy to make out the skeleton of a child from its small size.
- A better way of figuring out the sex of a skeleton
- to look at the bone structure.
- The hip or the pelvic area of women
- generally larger to enable child bearing.
- This
- a much larger number than the 200 bones that are recognised in modern anatomy.
- There
- evidence that fruits such as ber, amla, jamun, dates and a variety of berries were collected.
NCERT Thought Questions
- how old they are and who looks after them. SOME IMPORTANT
- whether your school library has a collection of books on religion, and list the names of five books
Related PYQs (6)
With reference to the difference between the culture of Rigvedic Aryans and Indus Valley people, which of the following statements is/are correct?
Consider the following pairs : (Historical place) : (Well-known for)
Consider the following statements: I. Pali texts contain the first definite references to coins, e.g., kahapana, nikkha, kamsa, and kakanika. II. The literary evidence from Pali texts is corroborated by archaeological evidence of punch-marked coins from many sites, most of them made of silver. The above statements have been associated with which of the following?
Consider the following statements about the archaeological findings in Harappan towns: I. There is wide occurrence of spindle-whorls in the houses but absence of spinning wheels. II. Weights and measurement scales, complete with graduations have been discovered. III. There are houses built in large part with baked bricks, around relatively spacious courtyards, with their own wells, bathing platforms, and large rooms. Which of the following inferences can be drawn from the above statements?
Which of the following characterizes/characterize the people of Indus Civilization?