RBSE Class 6 Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 In the Earliest Cities

Rajasthan Board RBSE Class 6 Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 In the Earliest Cities Important Questions and Answers. 

RBSE Class 6 Social Science Important Questions History Chapter 3 In the Earliest Cities

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1. 
A great public bath has been found at
(a) Lothal 
(b) Mohenjodaro
(c) Rupar 
(d) Kali began.
Answer:
(b) Mohenjodaro

 

Question 2. 
Which was the first city of Indus valley civilization?
(a) Dholavira 
(b) Lothal
(c) Harappa 
(d) Mohenjodaro.
Answer:
(c) Harappa 

Question 3.  
Dholavira was divided into parts.
(a) 1 
(b) 2 
(c) 3 
(d) 4.
 Answer:
(c) 3 

Question 4. 
A dockyard was found at 
(a) Lothal 
(b) kali began
(c) Harappa 
(d) Dholavira.
Answer:
(a) Lothal 

Question 5. 
The Harappans got copper from:
(a) Rajasthan 
(b) Punjab
(c) Orissa 
(d) Karnataka.
Answer:
(a) Rajasthan 

Question 6. 
The western and higher part of the city was known as 
(a) The citadel
(b) The lower town
(c) Great public bath
(d) The middle town.
Answer: 
(a) The citadel

Fill in the blanks

Question 1  
............... and ............... had fire altars.
Answer:
Kalibangan, Lothal

Question 2  
............... is made of sticky material.
Answer:
Faience

Question 3  
............... were the people who know how to write.
Answer:
scribes

Question 4. 
The Harappans also made pots with beautiful ............... designs.
Answer:
black

Question 5. 
The houses of Harappan cities were made of ............... bricks.
Answer: 
baked.

 

Match the columns

Column A	Column B
1. Cotton cultivation	(a) Rectangular in shape
2. Seals	(b) Mehrgarh
3. Terracotta	(c) 3900 year ago
4. Khadir Beyt	(d) Used to make toys
5. Beginning of end of cities	(e) Dholavira

Answer:

Column A	Column B
1. Cotton cultivation	(b) Mehrgarh
2. Seals	(a) Rectangular in shape
3. Terracotta	(d) Used to make toys
4. Khadir Beyt	(e) Dholavira
5. Beginning of end of cities	(c) 3900 year ago

Very Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1. 
When did Harappan cities develop?
Answer: 
Harappan cities were developed about 4700 years ago. 

Question 2. 
Name the two Harappan cities where fire altars have been found. 
Answer: 

1. Kalibangan 
2. Lothal.

Question 3. 
Name any four Harappan cities.
Answer: 

1. Harappa, 
2. Mohenjodaro,
3. Kalibangan, 
4. Lothal.

Question 4. 
In which areas of the subcontinent are Harappan cities found?
Answer: 
These cities were found in the Punjab and Sind in Pakistan, and in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and the Punjab in India.

Question 5. 
What did a crafts person make?
Answer: 
Crafts person made all kinds of things either in their own homes or in special workshops.

Question 6. 
Which stone weights were made of stone?
Answer: 
Stone weights were made of chert, a kind of stone.

Question 7. 
Which is the most striking item found from the cities of Harappa?
Answer: 
The most striking items found from the cities of Harappa are beads, weights, and blades.

Question 8. 
How many years ago cotton was cultivated in Mehrgarh? 
Answer: 
Cotton was probably grown at Mehrgarh from about 7000 years ago.

 

Question 9. 
Who is a specialist?
Answer: 
A specialist is a person who is trained to do only one kind of work.

Question 10.
Give some examples of the work of specialists of the Harappan civilization.
Answer: 

1. Cutting stone, 
2. polishing beads, 
3. carving seals.

Question 11. 
What did the people of Harappa import?
Answer: 
The people of Harappa imported copper, tin, gold, silver, and precious stones from distant places.

Question 12. 
Who provided food to the people living in the cities of Harappa?
Answer: 
The farmers and herders supplied food to crafts persons, scribes, and rulers in the cities of Harappa.

Question 13. 
How is most of Egypt?
Answer: 
Most of Egypt is a dry desert.

Question 14. 
Why did the kings of Egypt send their armies to distant lands around 5000 years ago?
Answer: 
The kings of Egypt sent armies to distant lands to get gold, silver, ivory, timber, and precious stones.

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1. 
How did the Harappan buildings were completely destroyed?
Answer: 

1. Nearly a hundred and fifty years ago, when railway lines were being laid down for the first time in Punjab, engineers stumbled upon the site of Harappa in present-day Pakistan.
2. Due to good bricks, they carried off thousands of bricks from the walls of the old buildings of the city to build railway lines. By this many buildings were completely destroyed.

Question 2. 
Why are the subcontinent buildings found from the archeo¬logical sites of the ancient civilization called the Harappan civilization’s buildings?
Answer: 
Harappa city was the first city to be discovered in the ancient civilization of the subcontinent. Hence, all other sites from where similar buildings were found were described as Harappan.

Question 3. 
What unique objects have archaeologists found from the Harappan sites?
Answer: 
Archaeologists have found a set of unique objects in almost all these cities such as red pottery painted with designs in black, stone weights, seals, special beads, copper tools, and paralleled sided long stone blades.

Question 4. 
Describe the Great Bath found in Mohenjodaro.
Answer: 
The Great Path of Mohenjodaro

1. In Mohenjodaro, a very special tank was built which archaeologists call the Great Bath.
2. This was lined with bricks, and coated with plaster.
3. It was made water-tight with a layer of natural tar.
4. There were steps leading down to it from two sides, and there were rooms on all sides. 
5. Water was probably brought in from a well and drained out after use.
6. Perhaps important people took a dip in this tank on special occasions.

Question 5. 
Describe the ‘beads’ found in the Harappan civilization.
Answer: 
Many attractive beads have been received from Harappan temples. Many of these were made out of camelina, a beautiful red stone. The stone was cut, shaped, polished and finally, a hole was bored through the center so that a string could be passed through it.

Question 6. 
How are ‘Faience’ prepared? What was made of it?
Answer: 
Faience:
Faience is a material that is artificially produced. A gum was used to shape sand or powdered quartz into an object. The objects were then glazed, resulting in a shiny, glassy surface. The colors of the glaze were usually blue or sea green. It was like a ceramic. Faience was used to make beads, bangles, earrings, and tiny vessels.

 

Question 7. 
What are raw materials? Explain with examples.
Answer: 
Raw materials are substances that are either found naturally such as wood, or ores of metals that are processed to produce finished goods. Similarly, cotton, produced by farmers, is a raw material that may be processed to make cloth.

Question 8. 
From which regions did the Harappans import metals and precious stones?
Answer: 

1. The Harappans probably got copper from present-day Rajasthan, and even from Oman in West Asia.
2. Tin, which was mixed with copper to produce bronze, may have been brought from present-day Afghanistan and Iran.
3. Gold could have come all the way from present-day Karnataka.
4. Precious stones are imported from present-day Gujarat, Iran, and Afghanistan.

Question 9. 
Briefly describe the agriculture practiced in the Harappan civilization.
Answer: 

1. The Harappans grew wheat, barley, pulses, peas, rice, sesame, linseed, and mustard.
2. The plow was used to dig the earth. Real plows, were probably made of wood. Toy models have been found.
3.  As this region does not receive heavy rainfall, some form of irrigation may have been used. This means that water was stored and supplied to the fields when the plants were growing.

Question 10. 
What else did the Harappans do in addition to agriculture to get food?
Answer: 
The Harappans reared cattle, sheep, goat,s and buffalo in addition to agriculture to get food. Water and pastures were available around settlements. However, in the dry summer months, large herds of animals were probably taken to greater distances in search of grass and water. They also collected fruits like ber, caught fish and hunted wild animals like the antelope.

Question 11. 
Briefly describe the port of Lothal.
Answer: 
The city of Lothal was situated beside a tributary of the Sabarmati, in Gujarat, close to the Gulf of Khambat. A big pond has been found here. This huge tank may have been a dockyard, where boats and ships came in from the sea and through the river channel. Goods were probably loaded and unloaded here.

Question 12. 
What is sealing? Why was sealing prevalent in the Harappan civilization?
Answer: 
The impression of the seal is known sealing. In the Harappan civilization, seals may have been used to stamp bags or packets containing goods that were sent from one place to another. After a bag \vas closed or tied, a layer of wet clay was applied on the knot, and" the seal was pressed on it. If the ceiling was intact, one could be sure that the goods had arrived safely.

Question 13. 
What changes occurred in the Harappan civilization about 3900 years ago? Describe. 
Answer: 
The following changes occurred in the Harappan civilization about 3900 years ago:

1. People stopped living in many of the cities.
2. Writing, seals and weights were no longer used.
3. Raw materials brought from long distances became rare.
4. In Mohenjodaro, we find that garbage piled up on the streets, the drainge system broke down, and new, less impressive. houses were built, even over the streets.
5. Sites in Sind and west Punjab (present-day Pakistan) were abandoned, while many people moved into newer, smaller settlements to the east and the south.

Question 14. 
What was the reason for the end of Harappan civilization? Explain.
Answer: 
The reason for the end of Harappan civilization is still unknown. But scholars have given the following reasons for this:

1. The rivers dried up.
2. Fuel was required for baking bricks. Due to this, there was deforestation.
3. Besides, grazing by large herds of cattle, sheep, and goats may have destroyed the green cover.
4. In some areas there were floods.
5. The rulers lost control.

Question 15. 
What do you know about ‘pyramids’? Describe.
Answer: 

1. Around 5000 years ago, Egyptian rulers built huge tombs, known as ‘pyramids’.
2. When the kings died, their bodies were preserved and buried in these pyramids. These carefully preserved bodies are known as ‘mummies’.
3. A large number of objects were also buried with them including food and drink, clothes, ornaments, utensils, musical instruments, weapons, animals and sometimes even serving men and women were buried with the rulers.

Long Answer Type Questions

Question 1. 
State the salient features of Harappan cities.
Answer: 
Salient features of Harappan cities:

1. The Harappan cities were divided into two or more parts.
2. Usually, the part to the west was smaller but higher and the part to the east was larger but lower. This is called the lower town.
3. Very often walls of baked brick were built around each part. The bricks were so well baked that they have lasted for thousands of years.
4. The bricks were laid in an interlocking pattern and that made the walls strong.
5. In some cities, special buildings were constructed on the citadel. For example, in Mohenjodaro, the Great Bath.
6. Other cities had fire altars and storehouses.
7. Drains were built for drainage in the cities.

 

Question 2. 
Describe the houses, drains, and streets of the.Harappan civili¬sation.
Answer: 
Houses:
Harappan houses were either one or two stories high, with rooms built around a courtyard. Most houses had a separate bathing area, and some had wells to supply water.

Drains:
Many of these cities had covered drains. These were laid out, in straight lines carefully. Each drain had a gentle slope so that water could flow through it. Drains in houses were connected to those on the streets and smaller drains led into bigger ones. As the drains were covered, inspection holes were provided at intervals to clean them.

Streets:
Roads were made straight in the cities of Harappa. Drains were also made into them. Houses, drains and streets were probably planned and built at the same time.

Question 3. 
Describe the characteristics of Harappan urban life.
Answer: 
The Characteristics of Harappan Urban Life:

1. A Harappan city was a very busy place.
2. Here people planned the construction of special buildings in the city.
3. The rulers sent people to distant lands to get metal, precious stones, and other things that they wanted. They have kept the most valuable objects, such as ornaments of gold and silver, or beautiful beads, for themselves.
4. There were scribes, people who know how to write, who helped prepare the seals, and perhaps wrote on other materials that have not survived.
5. In cities, there were men and women, craftspersons, making all kinds of things either in their own homes or in special workshops.
6. People were traveling to distant lands or returning with raw materials and, perhaps, stories.
7. Many terracotta toys have been found in cities and children must have played with them.
8. Farmers and herders provided food to the people living in the cities.

Question 4. 
Describe the new crafts developed in the cities of Harappa.
Answer: 

1. In Harappan cities, most of the things that have been found by archaeologists are made of stone, shell and metal, including copper, bronze, gold, and silver. 
2. Copper and bronze were used to make tools, weapons, ornaments, and vessels. Gold and silver were used to make ornaments and vessels. Decorative items were also made.
3. People here also made beads, weights, and blades.
4. The Harappans also made seals out of stone. These are generally rectangular and usually have an animal carved on them.
5. The Harappans also made pots with beautiful black designs.
6. Terracotta toys were made.
7. Cutting stone, polishing beads, or carving seals, etc. is also popular!
8. Faience was used to make beads, bangles, earrings, and tiny vessels.

Question 5. 
Describe the city of Dholavira.
Answer: 
Dholavira:

1. The city of Dholavira was located on Khadir Beyt (also spelled as Bet) in the Rann of Kutch.
2. There was fresh water and fertile soil.
3. Unlike some of the other Harappan cities, which were divided into two parts, Dholavira was divided into three parts.
4. Each part was surrounded by massive stone walls.
5. There were large entrances through gateways.
6. There was also a large open area in the settlement, where public ceremonies could be held.
7. In Dholavira other finds include large letters of the Harappan script that were carved out of white stone and perhaps inlaid in wood as generally Harappan writing has been found on small objects such as seals.

 

Question 6. 
Briefly describe the Lothal city of the Harappan civilization.
Answer: 
Local:

1. The city of Lothal stood beside a tributary of the Sabarmati, in Gujarat, close to the Gulf of Khambat.
2. It was situated near areas where raw materials such as semi-precious stones were easily available.
3. This was an important center for making objects out of stone, shells,s, and metal.
4. There was also a storehouse in the city. Many seals and sealings (the impression of seals of clay) were found in this storehouse.
5. A huge tank has also been found in Lothal considered as a dockyard where boats and ships came in from the sea and through the river channel. Goods were probably loaded and unloaded here.
6. A building that was found here was probably a workshop for making beads: pieces of stone, half-made beads, tools for bead making, and finished beads