NCERT Solutions Class 6th Social Science History Chapter – 1 What, Where, How and When? Question & Answer

May 2, 2022

NCERT Solutions Class 6th Social Science History Chapter – 1 What, Where, How and When?

Textbook	NCERT
Class	6^th
Subject	Social Science (History)
Chapter	1^st
Chapter Name	What, Where, How and When?
Category	Class 6th Social Science (History)
Medium	English
Source	Last Doubt

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NCERT Solutions Class 6th Social Science History Chapter – 1 What, Where, How and When?

Chapter – 1

What, Where, How and When?

Question Answer

Question. 1. Match the following –

Narmada Valley	The first big Kingdom
Magadha	Hunting and gathering
Garo hills	Cities about 2500 years ago
Indus and its tributaries	Early agriculture
Ganga Valley	The first cities

Answer –

Narmada Valley	Hunting and gathering
Magadha	The first big Kingdom
Garo hills	Early agriculture
Indus and its tributaries	The first cities
Ganga Valley	Cities about 2500 years ago

Question. 2. List one major difference between manuscripts and inscriptions.

Manuscripts	Inscriptions
1. Manuscripts are the old books that give handwritten accounts.	1. Inscriptions are engraved forms of writing used for various purposes.
2. These were written on leaves and barks of trees.	2. These were written on hard surfaces, e.g. stones.

Question. 5. Why do you think ordinary men and women did not generally keep records of what they did?
Answer – We think ordinary men and women did not generally keep records of what they did due to the following reasons –

• They did not know the art of writing in the beginning.
• Even some of them were not literate even after the knowledge of the script.
• They were not having an interest in such works.
• They did not know the importance of keeping records of the events. The lack of historical sense was mainly responsible for it.

Question. 6. Describe at least two ways in which you think the lives of kings would have been different from those of farmers.
Answer –

• The kings used to live in palaces or big houses. The farmers used to live in huts or in very small houses.
• The kings were dependent for their food on farmers. Farmers used to produce food for themselves and other people also.
• The kings wore showy and costly clothes and ornaments. Farmers wore simple and very cheap clothes. (Any two)

Question. 8. What were the subjects on which books were written in the past? Which of these would you like to read?
Answer – Before paper was discovered scholars wrote on:

• dried leaves,
• on the bark of birch trees and sometimes on copper (or metal) plates and stones.

We would like to read Vedas, Ramayana, Mahabharata and Panch tantra.

NCERT Solutions Class 6th History All Chapter Notes

Chapter 1 What, Where, How and When?

Chapter 2 From Hunting – Gathering to Growing Food

Chapter 3 In the Earliest Cities

Chapter 4 What Books and Burials Tell Us

Chapter 5 Kingdoms, Kings and An Early Republic

Chapter 6 New Questions and Ideas

Chapter 7 Ashoka The Emperor Who Gave Up War

Chapter 8 Vital Villages, Thriving Towns

Chapter 9 New Empires and Kingdoms

Chapter 10 Buildings, Paints and Books

NCERT Solution Class 6th History Question & Answer