RBSE Class 6 Social Science Notes History Chapter 8 Vital Villages, Thriving Towns

These comprehensive RBSE Class 6 Social Science Notes History Chapter 8 Vital Villages, Thriving Towns will give a brief overview of all the concepts.

RBSE Class 6 Social Science Notes History Chapter 8 Vital Villages, Thriving Towns

→ The use of iron began in the subcontinent around 3000 years ago.

→ New tools, system of transplantation, irrigation, production proved to be very important in the development of agriculture.

→ Largest landowner, independent farmers and landless labourers lived in the village. Besides these, there were also blacksmith, potter, carpenter and weaver.

→ Some of the earliest works in Tamil, known as Sangam literature.

→ We get to know about the life of ancient cities through stories, sculptures, travelogues and archeology.

→ Archaeologists have found several thousands of coins belonging to this period, of which the earliest were the punch marked coins.

→ The city was the centre of many activities like socio-economic-religious-administrative etc. For example, Mathura has been an important settlement for more than 2500 years.

→ Many crafts persons and merchants now formed associations known as shrenis.

→ Between 2200 and 1900 year ago, Arikamedu was a coastal settlement where ships unloaded goods from distant lands.

→ Rome is one of the oldest cities in Europe.