EXPLAIN CH1 OF HISTORY CLASS 6
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Explanation:
What can we know about the past?
There are several things we can know about our past such as:
What people used to eat, the type of clothes they used to wear, the houses in which they lived.
How were the lives of hunters, herders, farmers, rulers, merchants, priests, crafts persons, artists, musicians, and scientists?
The games children used to play, the stories they have heard, the songs they sang
*Where did people live?
People have lived along the banks of the Narmada river for several hundred thousand years. These people stayed on the bank of Narmada river as they knew about the vast wealth of plants in the surrounding forests. They used to collect roots, fruits and other forest produce for their food. Sometimes they also hunted animals.
The areas where women and men first began to grow crops such as wheat and barley was about 8000 years ago.
People also began to look after animals like sheep, goat, and cattle and used to live in villages.
The places where rice was first grown are to the north of the Vindhyas.
About 2500 years ago, cities developed on the banks of the Ganga and its tributaries, and along the sea coasts.
In ancient times, the area along the Ganga and its tributary rivers, to the south of the Ganga was known as Magadha which is now lying in the state of Bihar. Men and women moved in search of livelihood and also to escape from natural disasters like floods or droughts. These movements of people enriched our cultural traditions. People have shared new ways of carving stone, composing music, and even cooking food over several hundreds of years.
Names of the land
Our country is known by both words i.e India and Bharat.
The word India comes from the Indus, called Sindhu in Sanskrit. The Iranians and the Greeks who came through the northwest about 2500 years ago called it the Hindos or the Indos, and the land to the east of the river was called India.
The name Bharata was used for a group of people who lived in the northwest, and who are mentioned in the Rigveda, the earliest composition in Sanskrit (dated to about 3500 years ago). Later it was used for the country.