Chapter 4: What Books and Burials Tell Us
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What Books and Burials Tell Us
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Prelims High-Yield Explanations & Traps
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- megalithic
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Essential Definitions & Formulas
- I Sanskrit and other languagesSanskrit and other languages Sanskrit and other languagesSanskrit and other languages Sanskrit and other languages Sanskrit
- 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.
- Ho Ho HoHo Ho w some men became rulersw some men became rulers w some men became rulersw some men became rulers w some men became rulers Choosing leaders or rulers by voting
- something that has become common during the last fifty years or so.
NCERT Thought Questions
- whether your school library has a collection of books on religion, and list the names of five books
Related PYQs (9)
Consider the following statements:
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 Rigvedic period: I. Irrigation from wells allowed agriculture to expand away from flood plains and strips on river margins into the present Punjab and Haryana plains having underground water levels reasonably close to the surface. II. Draught-animal power was employed to draw up water out of the wells. Which of the following information support/supports the above statements?
Which of the following pairs of ancient and modern names of rivers is/are correctly matched?