Social Science Class-VI Chapter 2
Exercises
Imagine
You live in a rock shelter like the one shown on page 14 about 12000 Years ago yout uncle is painting one of the inner walls of the cave and you went to help him will you mix the colours draw the lines fill in the colurs what are the stroies he might tell you
Answer:
Picture Shown on Page 14
I would like to fill Colurs
Quetions 1
Comlete the sentences
Hunter-gatherers chose to live in caves and rock shelters because_________________
grasslands developed Around __________________Years ago
Answer
Hunter Gatherers Chose to live in Caves and rock shelters because they provided shelter from rain heat and wind .
grasslands developed around 12000 yaers ago.
Question 2
Why do people who grow crop have to stay in the same place a long time ?
Answer
People who gro crops have to stay in the place for a long time to look after the plants watering weeding driving away animals and birds-till the grain ripened.
Question 3
Why do archaeologista think that many people who lived in mehrgarh were hunters to start with and that herding became more important latter?
Answer
at mehgarh many animal bones were found bones of not onlu wild animals such as the deer and pig but also bones of sheep and got were found thata is ehy archaelogists think that many people wh lived in mehrgarh were hunters to start with and that herding became more important later.
Question 4
why did the hunter-gatherers travel from place to place In what ways are these similar to different from the reasons for which we travel today ?
Ans
Hunter-gatherers travelled from one place to another in sarch of food when food at one place is exhausted then they travel to another place where they can find the food now a days people travel not for food but for other reasons such as
they like travelling
they want to expolore new places
they travel to meet relative and friends
Question 5
list three ways in which hunter-gatherers used fire would you use fire for any ofposes today ?
Ans
Eaelier hunter gatherers used fire for
Cooking
Clearing of forests
saving from wild animals
Yes we do use fire for cooking .
Question 6
List three ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from that of hunter-gartherers ?
Ans
Three main difference between farmers-herders and hunter-gatherers are as follows .
Farmer-herdres man lived in one place for a long time while the hunter gatherers used to stay in one place for very little time .
Farmers-herders used to cultivate their livelihood and raise animals while the hunter gatherers were dependent on weather-friendly natural resources and hunting.
Farmers herders used to make huts for their living while the hunter-gatherres lived in caves and tubers.
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