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Question 13 Marks
Social organization in the ancient cities
Answer
  1. The roots of culture in cities were in the culture of village-settlements of the New Stone Age.
  2. The earlier faith system, social life, and festivals became more elaborate in cities.
  3. Grand temples were built in many cities. Chiefs of these temples became chief administrators of these cities. Later the positions of temple head and King were held by the same individual.
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Question 23 Marks
Use of metal.
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  1. Christian Thomsen studied the pre-historic artifacts and antique objects and introduced the ‘Three Age System’ for classifying these objects.
  2. The objects were classified into the following order :
    • Stone tools
    • Copper tools and articles
    • Iron tools and articles.
  3. Gold was the first metal used. It was a soft metal and could not be used to make tools and implements.
  4. Humans discovered copper to make tools and thereby the ‘Copper Age’ began.
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