Ls.no Q.7 Answer in two - three sentences.
1) 1. Explain : Life of Harappan civilization.
What is mean by source of history
3. What does written sources of history include?
4. What does Atharvaveda consists of?
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5. Describe the dress of the people during the vedic period.
6. Write about 'Deccan Plateau'.
7 Write about the trading activities of the Harappans.
8. Write about Shrenis.
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Write information of garments and ornaments in the vedic period.
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Write about Shrenis.
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Which questions were answered by Gautam Buddha in Aryasatyas or
Noble truths.
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Give information of oral source.
Write about the role of the Nanda Dynasty.
Name any four important regions of Indian history, .
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Answers
Answer:
1)The major sources of our information are: 1) The Great Bath, 2) The Citadel, 3) Seals, 4) Bearded Man, 5) Dancing Girl, 6)Dockyard, 7) Script, 11. Sources of Harappa: Great Bath Great Bath: The great bath at Mohenjo-Daro is a huge structure
2) Historical source (also known as historical material or historical data) is original source that contain important historical information. These sources are something that inform us about history at the most basic level, and these sources used as clues in order to study history.
3)Written sources. Some examples of primary written sources are contemporary letters, eyewitness accounts, official documents, political declarations and decrees, administrative texts, and histories and biographies written in the period that is to be studied.
4)The Atharvaveda is a collection of 20 books, with a total of 730 hymns of about 6,000 stanzas. The text is, state Patrick Olivelle and other scholars, a historical collection of beliefs and rituals addressing practical issues of daily life of the Vedic society, and it is not a liturgical Yajurveda-style collection.
5)Vedic period. The Vedic period was the time duration between 1500 and 500 BCE. The garments worn in the Vedic period mainly included a single cloth wrapped around the whole body and draped over the shoulder. ... In the Atharva Veda, garments began to be made of the inner cover, an outer cover, and a chest-cover.
6)The Deccan Plateau is a large plateau that covers most of South India. It is triangular, surrounded by three mountain ranges. It extends over eight Indian states (principally, Telangana, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu). ... The forests on the plateau are older than the Himalayan mountains.
7) Other trade goods included terracotta pots, gold, silver, metals, beads, flints for making tools, seashells, pearls, and colored gem stones, such as lapis lazuli and turquoise. There was an extensive maritime trade network operating between the Harappan and Mesopotamian civilizations.
8)Thoe were called shrenis. There were wparate guilds different crafts. They gave traimng to the craftsmen, bought raw material from different places and gave it to the craftsrnen, distr±uted the finished product, acted as banks and gave grants to build temples and monasteries.
9)Vedic period. The Vedic period was the time duration between 1500 and 500 BCE. The garments worn in the Vedic period mainly included a single cloth wrapped around the whole body and draped over the shoulder. ... In the Atharva Veda, garments began to be made of the inner cover, an outer cover, and a chest-cover.
10)Thoe were called shrenis. There were wparate guilds different crafts. They gave traimng to the craftsmen, bought raw material from different places and gave it to the craftsrnen, distr±uted the finished product, acted as banks and gave grants to build temples and monasteries.
11) Gautama Buddha taught his followers about 4 noble truths and 8-fold path. He believed in the theory of karma. According to him, everyone has to reap the fruits of his good and bad deeds. He had no faith in rituals. He was against the caste system. He gave stress on Ahimsa or non-injury by thought ,world.
12)Oral history is a method of conducting historical research through recorded interviews between a narrator with personal experience of historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of adding to the historical record.
13)The founder, Mahapadma Nanda, was a powerful ruler who extended the boundaries of the Mahagdan empire. He uprooted all the Kshatriya ruling dynasties of the Northern India such as the Panchalas, Kurus, Asmakas, Ikshvakus, and Surasenas, etc., and annexed their states.
14)The Indian mainland has been broadly divided into four geographical areas: the Northern Mountains or the Himalayan region; the great Northern Plains; the Deccan Peninsula; the coastal plains and Islands.