RBSE Solutions for Class 6 Social Science History Chapter 1 What, Where, How and When?

Rajasthan Board RBSE Solutions for Class 6 Social Science History Chapter 1 What, Where, How and When? Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.

RBSE Class 6 Social Science Solutions History Chapter 1 What, Where, How and When?

RBSE Class 6 Social Science What, Where, How and When? InText Questions and Answers

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Question 1.
Why do people travel nowadays? 
Answer: People travel nowadays

1. To enrich cultural traditions.
2. To search livelihood.
3. To escape from natural disasters.
4. Some people travel to different places driven by a spirit of adventure to discover new things.

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Question 2.
Can you think of the advantages of writing on a hard surface? And what could have been the difficulties?
Answer: 
The advantages of writing on a hard surface are as follows : 
(a) They can not be easily destroyed.
(b) They can be kept for long time. Difficulties: As the tools were not too sharp to engrave. It was time consuming to write on a head surface.

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Question 3.
Do you think cloth is found frequently by archaeologists?
Answer: 
Cloth is not frequently found by archaeologists as people were not aware of cotton at that time.

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Question 4.
Find two dates mentioned on page 3. Which set of letters would you use for them? 
Answer: 

1. 4700 BC, 
2. 2:500 BC. 

RBSE Class 6 Social Science What, Where, How and When? Textbook Questions and Answer

Question 1. 
Match the following

Answer:

Question 2. 
List one major difference between manuscripts and inscriptions.
Answer: 
Manuscripts are written by hand, usually on palm leaves or on specially prepared bark of the tree and they can be easily destroyed. While inscriptions were engraved on hard surfaces like metal, rocks or stones and they can be kept for long time.

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Question 3. 
Return to Rasheeda’s question. Can you think of some answers to it?
Answer: 
Rasheeda's question was “How could anyone know what had happened so many years ago?”
We can know about past with the help of the following sources :

• Manuscripts
• Inscriptions
• Old Buildings and Monuments
• Travelogues and Accounts of foreigners
• Artifacts like coins, pottery, etc.

Question 4. 
Make a list of all the objects that archaeologists may find. Which of these could be made of stone?
Answer: 
Archaeologists may find the following objects:

• Coins Monuments.
• Animal bones Tools
• Inscriptions Weapons
• Edicts Pottery
• Old buildings Jewellery
• Cave paintings Manuscripts From the above objects, the objects which were made of stone are;
• Tools Old buildings
• Inscriptions Monuments
• Weapons Edicts

Question 5. 
Why do you think ordinary men and women did not generally keep records of what they did?
Answer: 
Ordinary men and women did not keep records of what they did because

1. There was no proper writing method.
2. They did not feel any use to record the events.
3. Education and writing work was often confined to the upper class.
4. Ordinary men and women were unfamili ar with the art of writing.

Question 6. 
Describe atleast two ways in which you think the lives of kings would have been different from those of farmers.
Answer: 
The lives of kings would have been different from those of farmers as:

1. Farmers used to work hard in the fields to produce food for king and other people, where as the duty of king was to protect his people and kingdom.
2. Farmers did not keep records of what they did as they used to live ordinary life while kings kept records of their victories, administration etc.