WHAT BOOKS AND BURIALS TELL US
I. NAME THE FOLLOWING.
1. A book on medicine written by Charaka. ______________________
2. Men and women captured in war and treated as the property of their owners. ___________________
3. The thousand hymns in the Rigveda meaning “well-said”. ______________
4. The people who composed the hymns. ________
5. Stone boulders used to mark burial sites. ___________________
6. Animal bones on which writings were found----used by fortune tellers to predict the future. ______________________
II. FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH APPROPRIATE ANSWER.
1. The Rigveda is written in old or _________________________________
2. The Rigveda was __________several centuries after it was first composed.
3. ____________________ was used to prepare one of the earliest printed texts of the Rigveda.
4. According to the Rigveda the priests were sometimes called _________________ who performed various rituals.
5. ________________ were carefully arranged by people to mark burial sites.
6. _______________ were women and men who were often captured in war.
7. Charaka stated that the human body has ________bones by counting the teeth, _______________and ____________________.
8. Chinese kings got scribes to write questions on ______________ bones.
9. Languages spoken in Jharkhand and parts of central India belong to the ___________________________ family.
10. Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam belong to the _________________ family.
III. CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER FROM THE GIVEN OPTIONS.
1. The oldest Veda __________
a. Samaveda b. Rigveda c. Yajurveda d. Atharvaveda
2. The languages spoken in the North-Eastern states of India belong to the_______________ family.
a. Indo-European b. Austro-Asiatic c . Dravidian d. Tibeto-Burman
3. Stone boulders placed on the surface served as _________to indicate burial sites.
a. signposts b.stepping stones c. mile stones d. asteroids
4. Cracks on Oracle bones were studied by fortune tellers in __________.
a. India b. Russia c. China d. Germany
IV. WRITE TRUE OR FALSE.
1. In addition to material remains historians examine written sources as well. __________
2. More objects found in one grave than in another is evidence that there were social differences amongst those who were buried. __________
3. The Kings in China wrote on bones to use them as magic-sticks to keep peace in their kingdom. ___________
4. People in Inamgaon were vegetarians. ___________
5. Some Cists have port-holes which could be used as an entrance. ___________
6. Chariots were used in battles. ___________
V. MATCH THE COLUMNS.
COLUMN A COLUMN B ANSWER
1. Stone boulders a. Chariots 1.
2. Dasas b. Vish 2.
3. Yajnas c. Priests 3.
4. Vaishya d. Dasyus 4.
5. Horses e. Megaliths 5.
6. Brahmins f. Tributary of Bhima 6.
7. R. Ghod g. Sacrifices 7.
VI. ARRANGE THE FOLLOWING IN THE CORRECT ORDER.
CONSTRUCTING MEGALITHS NUMBERS
a. The bodies of those who died later were
brought into the grave through the portholes.
b. Burying the dead.
c. Transporting stones.
d. Digging pits in the earth.
e. Placing stones in position.
f. Finding suitable stone.
g. Breaking boulders.
h. Shaping stones
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