History

What Books and Burials Tell Us

Question:

Find out whether your school library has a collection of books on religion, and list the names of five books from this collection.

Answer:

 Do yourself with the help of your subject-teacher and school librarian. A sample set of five such books:
(a) The Mahabharata
(b) The Ramayana
(c) The Bible
(d) The Bhagwad Gita
(e) The Quran

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What Books and Burials Tell Us

Q 1.

Name the four Vedas.

Q 2.

Where is Inamgaon situated?

Q 3.

In what language has the Rigveda been composed?

Q 4.

Write a short note on the Rigveda. [V. Imp.]

Q 5.

What were the various purposes of fighting battles as depicted by the Rigveda?

Q 6.

What were the groups of people in terms of their work?

Q 7.

Find out whether your school library has a collection of books on religion, and list the names of five books from this collection.

Q 8.

In what ways are the books we read today different from the Rigveda ?

Q 9.

What were megaliths?  [Imp.]

Q 10.

What kind of evidence from burials do archaeologists use to find out whether there were social differences amongst those who were buried?

Q 11.

In what ways do you think that the life of a raja' was different from that of a dasa' or dasi'?

Q 12.

Describe in brief about how the Rigveda depicts cattle, horses, chariots, and battles.

Q 13.

How have people in a society been depicted in the Rigveda?    [V. Imp.]

Q 14.

How is it known that burial spots were meant for families?

Q 15.

Who were the Aryas' and the Dasas'?    [V. Imp.]

Q 16.

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words to complete each sentence:
(i)The oldest of the Vedas is ………..
(ii)The Rigveda was composed about …….. years ago.
(iii)The hymns in the Vedas have been referred to as ………….. which means …………….
(iv) The major gods praised in the hymns of the Rigveda were : ……………………….and …………
(v) Sanskrit is part of the …………..  family of languages.
(vi) In a hymn in the Rigveda, Vishvamitra used the word ‘sisters' for the two rivers ……and…….
(vii) Brahmins' and Rajas' were two groups of people in terms of…………………..
(viii) Slaves were captured during………………..
(ix) Stone boulders used for marking burial sites are called …………………
(x) Black and Red Ware are words used for…………….. that were buried with the dead.

Q 17.

Name some area where megaliths were prevalent.

Q 18.

Write a short note on megaliths.

Q 19.

Megalith Complete the sentences:
(a) Slaues were used for…………….
(b) Megaliths are found in……………
(c) Stone circles or boulders on the surface were used to………………..
(d) Port-holes were used for……………
(e) People at Inamgaon ate…………….

Q 20.

How do megaliths show that there were social differences? [V. Imp.]