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6 & 9th Indus valley Civilization
1) Match the following

I. Mesopotamia – a. 1700 to 1122 BCE
II. Indus valley – b. 3100 to 1100 BCE
III. Egyptian – c. 3500 to 2000 BCE
IV. Chinese – d. 3300 to 1900 BCE
1. a, d, b, c 3. b, a, d, c
2. c, d, a, b 4. c, d, b, a
2) Initially people lived in __________, then they formed _________out of groups.

3) Which of the following is correct about people settle near rivers?
i. The soil is fertile
ii. Fresh water is available for drinking, watering livestock and irrigation
iii. Easy movement of people and goods is possible.
4) The ruins of Harappa were first described by the British East India company soldier
and explorer ______________ in his book.
5) When Charles Mason visited the _____________ Which is now in Pakistan he came
across some mysterious brick mounds.
6) Ruin brick castle with very high walls and towers built on a hill. This was the
earliest historical record of the existence of __________.
7) In which year engineers leader railway line connecting Lahore to Karachi they
discover more burnt bricks?

8) In 1924 who found many common features between Harappan and mohenjo daro?
9) Where does the word civilization came from?
10) In which year archaeologist began to excavate the cities of Harappa and mohenjo
daro?
11) Archaeologist may use a ______________, to see under the ground.
12) True or false: archaeologists search the ancient literary sources for references
about the places
13) In which year the archaeological survey of India (ASI) was started in?
14) The ASI headquarters is located in?
15) What made the researchers conclude that Harappa was older than mohenjo daro?
16) Find the age: it is a historical period characterised by the use of articles made of
bronze?
17) What is the total area of the Indus valley civilization?
18) How many big cities are there in Indus valley civilization?
19) What was the first metal discovered and used by humans?
20) who had developed a system of standardised weights and measures?
21) A naval dockyard has been discovered in?
22) Who saw the dancing girl statuette, and said “when i was first saw them I found it
difficult to believe that they were prehistoric modelling”?
23) KVT complex spread over __________ and _________ has many places, names
of those were mentioned in Sangam literature.
24) Korkai, Vanji, Tondi, Matrai are the names of places in ___________, Gurkay
and Pumpuhat are in ____________.
25) The rivers Kawri and Poruns are in ________.

26) The rivers Kaweriwala and Phornai in ________ also occur in the Sangam
literature
27) True or false : Horse and Iron were unknown to the people of Indus.
28) Indus people used the red quartz stone called ___________ to design jewellery
29) True Or false : Archaeological site at Mohenjo-Daro has been declared as a
World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
30) The earliest form of writing was developed by ____________.
31) Which of the following is correct about Indus civilisation?
i. The Indus script has not been deciphered.
ii. Cotton fabrics were in common use and wool was also used.
iii. Clay spindles unearthed suggest that yarn was spun.
iv. Settlements were built on giant platforms and elevated grounds.
32) True or false : The Indus civilisation seems to have been a peaceful one. Few
weapons were found and there is no evidence of an army.
33) True or false : Ornaments were popular only with women.
34) True or false : The ornaments were made of gold, silver, ivory, shell, copper,
terracotta and precious stones.
35) True or false : Cities were well planned with covered drainage and straight wide
roads, cutting each other at right angles.
36) The Radiocarbon C14is used to determine?
37) True or false: In Indus civilisation, there were a low sense of awareness on public
health.
38) Which of the following is correct about Occupation of Indus valley people?

a) The main occupation of the Indus civilization people is not known. However
agriculture handicrafts pottery making jewellery making weaving carpentry
and trading were practiced
b) They reared domesticated animals
c) Pottery was practiced using the Potters wheel
d) Potteries were red in colour with beautiful designs in black.
39) True or false: We don’t have any evidence pointing to specific deities or their
religious practices
40) There might have been worship of mother goddess, which is concluded based
upon the excavation of ______________.
41) Indus valley people made various types of toys using ____________ which show
that they enjoyed playing.
42) Which of the following is correct about Decline of Harappan culture?
 Repeated floods, ecological changes
 Invasions, natural calamity
 Epidemic, deforestation, climatic changes.
43) Which of the following is correct about General facts about Indus civilisation?
 It is among the oldest in the world
 Is also the largest among 4 ancient civilizations
 The world’s first planned cities are found in the civilization
44) The Great Pyramid of Giza built by King Khufu in _______ built with
_________.
45) Mesopotamia Ur Ziggurat built by King ________ in honour of the Moon God
______.
46) Abu Simbel site of two temples built by Egyptian king ___________.

47) The Indus valley civilization also known as harappan civilization covers an area
of over____________ in India and Pakistan.
48) True or false : Fortification, well-planned streets and lanes and drainages can be
observed in the Harappan towns.
49) The main concentration was in the regions of Gujarat, Pakistan, __________and
_________.
50) Mehergarh is a ___________& site. It is located near the Bolan Basin of
Balochistan in _______.
51) Which of the following is correct?
a. In Mehergarh, found the evidence of farming and herding done by man in
very early times.
b. Archaeological evidence suggests that Neolithic culture existed in Mehergarh
as early as 7000 BCE.
52) In Indus civilisation, the streets are observed to have a _________.
53) Why burnt bricks are used in construction?
54) A granary with walls made of mud bricks, has been discovered in Rakhigarhi,
Haryana, belonging to the ________________.
55) Which of the following is correct about streets and Houses in Indus civilisation?
a. The streets were straight running from North to South and east to West and
intersecting each other at right angles
b. The roads are wide with rounded corners
c. There is no conclusive evidence of the presence of palaces or places of
worship
d. The houses were built using baked bricks and mortar. Sundried bricks were
also used most of the bricks were of uniform size. Roofs were flat.

56) True or false: in Indus civilisation each house had toilets and bathrooms
57) True or false : In Indus civilisation, Each drain had a steep slope so that water
could flow
58) Every house had it’s own __________, which collected all the sediments and
allowed only the water to flow into the street drain.
59) Many of these cities had covered drains. The drains were covered with
____________.
60) The Granary was a massive building with a _______________.
61) True or false : The remains of Wheat, barley, millets sesame and pulses have been
found there.
62) _______________ was another huge public building at Mohenjo-Daro. It was a
multi pillared hall.
63) True or false: Standardized weights and measures were used by them. They used
sticks with marks to measure length.
64) The Harappan used carts with ___________ wheels.
65) True or false: There is evidence for extensive maritime trade with Mesopotamia.
Indus seals have been found in Iraq, Kuwait, Syria.
66) Who bought jewellery from the land of Melukaha was mentioned in an epic?
67) A naval dockyard has been discovered in?
68) Lothal is situated on the banks of?
69) A male image from Mohenjo-Daro has been identified as ____________.
70) __________________ is also known as the Harappan civilisation, since the
Harappa was the _______ site to be discovered.
71) The tank called the _____________ at Mohenjo-Daro was an important structure,
well paved with several adjacent rooms.

72) The Harappans practiced _____________ and they cultivated __________,

____________, and various types of ____________.
73) Which type of cropping was adopted by Harappans?
74) The Harappan cattle are called _______ and it is a large breed, often represented
in their ______.
75) Which of the following is correct about Pottery?
a. The Harappans used Painted pottery.
b. Their potteries have a deep red slip and black paintings.
76) Which of the following is correct about Tools and Weapons?
a. The Harappans used chert blades, copper objects and bone and ivory tools.
b. They did not possess knowledge about iron.
c. Their weapons included arrows, spears, a chisel-bladed tool and axe.
77) The bronze image of dancing girl from Mohenjo-Daro is suggestive of the use of?
78) ____________ refers to the chert raw material collected from Rohri in Pakistan.
79) The Harappans used _____________ ornaments.
80) True or false : They made carnelian, copper and gold ornaments.
81) The Harappans didn’t had knowledge of cotton and silk textiles. True or false
 Faience, stone ware and shell bangles were also used.
 Some of them had etched designs and the Harappans exported them to the
Mesopotamia.
83) The Harappans had close trade links with the ____________.
84) What have been found in the West Asian sites namely Oman, Bahrain, Iraq and
Iran?

85) The mention of ____________ in the cuneiform inscriptions is considered to refer

to the Indus region.
86) True or false: The Harappans developed a system of proper weights and
measures.
 The cubical chert weights are found at the Harappan sites.
 The weights point to their knowledge of the binary system. The ratio of
weighing is doubled as 1:2:4:8:16:32.
 The seals from various media such as steatite, copper, terracotta and ivory are
found in the Harappan sites.
 They were probably used in the trade activities.
89) About how much texts have been documented from the Harappan sites?
90) Soma scholars are of the view that the script is in ____________ language.
91) Toy carts, rattles, wheels, tops, marbles and hop scotches made in terracotta
suggest the ________________.
92) True or false:
a. The Indus people had a close relationship with nature.
b. They worshipped neem trees.
93) Fire altars have been identified at _________.
94) True or false:
i. The Indus people buried the dead.
ii. Burials were done elaborately and evidence for cremation has also been
found.

95) The archaeological evidence shows movement of the Harappans to the

___________ after the decline of the Indus civilisation.
96) The period of the civilisation has been divided into?
97) The Indus civilisation and it’s urban featured started declining from about
_________.
98) True or false: The Harappans knew the art of writing.
99) According to Mahadevan, a stone celt discovered in ___________ has same
marking as that of the symbol of the Indus script.
100) According to Parpola, the sign of the Indus script is likely to represent
_____________.

Answers :
1. 4
2. Groups and communities
3. All of above
4. Charles Masson
5. North -West Frontier Province
6. Harappa
7. 1856
8. Sir John Marshall
9. Ancient latin word “Civis” means city
10. 1920s
11. Magnetic scanner
12. True
13. 1861
14. New Delhi
15. Slight difference are found in the Earthwares of Harappan and Mohenjodaro
16. Bronze age
17. 13 lakh sq. Km
18. 6
19. Copper
20. Indus people
21. Lothal in Gujarat
22. Sir John Marshall
23. Afghanistan and Pakistan
24. Pakistan and Afghanistan
25. Afghanistan
26. Pakistan
27. True
28. Carnelian
29. True
30. Sumerians
31. All of above
32. True
33. False
34. True
35. True
36. The age of object
37. False
38. All of above
39. True
40. Several female figurines
41. Terracotta
42. All of above
43. All of above
44. 2500 BCE and lime stone
45. Ur Jammu, Sin
46. King Ramises II
47. 1.5 million sq. Km
48. True
49. Rajasthan and Haryana

50. Neolithic site and Pakistan

51. All of above
52. Grid pattern
53. They are strong, hard, durable resistant to fire and will not dissolve in water
or rain.
54. Mature Harappan phase
55. All of above
56. True
57. False
58. Own soak pit
59. Slabs and bricks
60. Solid brick foundation
61. True
62. The assembly Hall
63. True
64. Spokeless solid
65. True
66. King Naram-sin of Akkadian empire
67. Lothal in Gujarat
68. Tributary of Sabarmati river
69. Priest king
70. The Indus civilisation, and first
71. Great Bath
72. Agriculture, wheat, Barley and millets
73. Double cropping

74. Zebu and seals

75. Both are correct
76. All of above
77. Lost wax process
78. Rohri chert
79. Metal and stone
80. True
81. False
82. all of above
83. Mesopotamians
84. Harappan seals
85. Melukaha
86. True
87. All of above
88. Both
89. 5000
90. Dravidian language
91. Amusement of Harappan people
92. A-true, B-false its Pipal trees
93. Kalibangan
94. Both are correct
95. East and south
96. Early, Mature, Later
97. 1900 BCE
98. True

99. Mayiladuthurai
100. Dravidian Mono-syllabic roots.


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