Social Science [1 Mark Questions]

People in early days were hunters, herders, farmers, rulers, musicians, merchants, priests, craftsmen, artists scientists.

Study of inscriptions is called Epigraphy.

The manuscripts are preserved in Temples.

Scholars who could read Greek figured out that the names of king and queen were enclosed in a little frame called Cartouche.

Birch.

Because it consists of the basin of seven rivers altogether.

The sources of history are archaeological and literary.

Hindu.

A historian is a person who studies history.

People living in the Andaman Islands get their own food by fishing, hunting and by collecting forest produce.

India, Bharat, Jambudweep and Hindustan.

Sindhu.

History is a chronological account of events as they took place in the past. It tells us about the type of rulers, kingdoms, people, events and lifestyles of several ages.

Narmada.

The people, who hunted wild animals, caught fish and birds and gathered fruits, roots, nuts, seeds, leaves and eggs for their food were called hunter- gatherers.

In the pre-historic times people lived along the rivers and in the areas with ample plant and animal life.

Common Era.

Inscriptions are writings on relatively hard surface such as stone or metal.

Tributaries are rivers that join a larger river.

Sanskrit.

North.

Son.

Pakistan.

The region where rice was first of all grown in India is the North of the Vindhyas.

Three languages.

The history of Egypt.

Bones of the animals helped to know the eating habits of the people.

Before Common Era.

Mostly epics, poems and plays in Ancient period were written in Sanskrit or Prakrit.

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

Rosetta is a town on the north coast of Egypt.

True.

Alphabet p.

Northern part.

Three.

Palm leaf.

We can know about the past by studying history.

The people who study the objects of the past.

Anno Domini.

In Sulaiman and Kirthar hills.

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iran, China and Myanmar, etc. form South Asia.

True.

Ravi and Jhelum.

Early people lived along the banks of River Narmada.

Magadha.

Ashoka.

To develop agriculture and basic things.

True.

A source.

Fishing, forest products and hunting.