WORKBOOK –HISTORY

CHAPTER -1 WHAT, HOW AND WHEN

Subtopics:
➢ Finding out what happened.
➢ What can we know about the past?
➢ Where did people live?
➢ Names of the land
➢ Finding out about the past.
➢ One past or many?
➢ What do dates mean?
I. Observe the given word search and find out different words related to history with help of clue box.
II. Complete the Mind Map with the help of clue given.

What people ate

How can we find out about the past?

III. Discover the occupations, type of food and the kind of clothes that your grandparents used in earlier
days.
Food Kind of clothes Occupation

IV. Case Study Based Questions.

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
People have lived along the banks of this river for several hundred thousand years. Some of the earliest
people who lived here were skilled gatherers, that is, people who gathered their food. They knew about the
vast wealth of plants in the surrounding forests, and collected roots, fruits and other forest produce for their
food. They also hunted animals. Some of the areas where women and men first began to grow crops such as
wheat and barley about 8000 years ago are located here. People also began rearing animals like sheep, goat,
and cattle, and lived in villages. Locate the Garo hills to the north-east and the Vindhyas in central India.
These were some of the other areas where agriculture developed. The places where rice was first grown are
to the north of the Vindhyas.
1. People who lived along the banks of River Narmada were: _________________________________
2. ________________was first grown in the regions Garo Hills and to the north of the Vindhyas.
3. Where did the early people live? ________________________________________________
4. Write the name of the region where rice was first of all grown in India? _________________________
V. Find out and circle the following rivers and hills in the physical map of the subcontinent.
a) Rivers – Narmada, Vindhyas, Indus, Ganga
b) Hills – Sulaiman and Kirthar, Garo hills

VI. Observe the map and find out the directions of following rivers and hill with the help of box.
(North East, North West, Central Asia)

a) Ganga and sons Kirthar hills Vindhyas:

VII. Use the timeline to sequence the important historical events.

8000 years ago, 4700 years ago 2500 years ago 2000 years ago

VIII. Think and write.

1. Why is South Asia called a subcontinent?
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IX. Assertion -Reason type questions.
In the questions given below, there are three statements marked as Assertion(A) and Reason (R).
Read the statements and choose the correct options.
a) Both Assertion(A) and Reason (R) are correct and reason (R) is the correction explanation of Assertion
(A)
b) Both Assertion(A) and Reason (R) are correct, and reason (R) is not the correction explanation of
Assertion (A)
c) Assertion (A) is true, but Reason is false.
d) Assertion (A)is false, but reason (R) is true.
1. Assertion (A): People lived on the banks of Narmada for many hundred thousand years.
Reason(R): They were old stone age people.
2. Assertion (A): Kingdom of Magadha was in Bengal.
Reason(R): Its rulers were very powerful.
3. Assertion (A): Narmada and its tributary is called son.
Reason(R): The area along these rivers to the south of Ganga was known as Magadha.
X. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Throughout, people travelled from one part of the subcontinent to another. The hills and high mountains
including the Himalayas, deserts, rivers and seas made journeys dangerous at times, but never impossible.
So, men and women moved in search of livelihood, as also to escape from natural disasters like floods or
droughts. Sometimes men marched in armies, conquering others' lands. Besides, merchants travelled with
caravans or ships, carrying valuable goods from place to place.
1. Why did people travel?
(a) In search of livelihood (b) To escape from natural disasters
(c) For trade (d) All of these
 2. Why were the journeys dangerous?
(a) Because of high mountains and hills (b) Because of big rivers and seas
(c) Because of vast expanse of deserts (d) All of these
3. Why were journeys never impossible?
(a) Due to man's desire and needs (b) Due to quest for knowledge
(c) Both of these (d) None of these
XI. Compare and contrast the medium and reasons for travelling of people in earlier time and recent time.
A:
Earlier times Recent times
Means of transport

Reason of travelling

XII. Complete the table by writing how different people names the country.
Ex:
a) Two words often use for our country India and Bharat
b) The word India comes from
c)The Iranians and Greeks named India
d) The group of people who lived in the northwest
XIII. Who Am I?
1) I am a page from a palm leaf and people used to write on me. ________________________
2) I am the tributary of river Ganga. ________________________
3) People used me to study about history and you can see me on hard surface such as stone or metal.
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Activity
XIV. List at least five different craft that you know about today. Are the craftsperson- a) men b) women c)
both men and women.
 XV. Complete the Flow Chart.

What objects can an

Weapons
archaeologists find.

XVI. List out the advantages of writing on a hard surface? and What could have been the difficulties.
Advantages Disadvantages

XVII. Case Study Based Questions.

• Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow.
Over the years, many manuscripts were eaten away by insects, some were destroyed, but many have
survived, often preserved in temples and monasteries. These books dealt with all kinds of subjects’ religious
beliefs and practices, the lives of kings, medicine and science. Besides, there were epics. poems, plays.
Many of these were written in Sanskrit, others were in Prakrit (languages used by ordinary people) and
Tamil.
1. Which manuscripts have survived?
(a) Those eaten away by insects (b) Those preserved in temples and monasteries
(c) Those kept in private libraries (d) All of these
2. Which language was used by masses?
(a) Sanskrit (b) Tamil
(c) Prakrit (d) Hindi
XVIII. Write the statement in correct form:
a) Inscriptions are writing relatively on soft surface such as sponge or paper.
_________________________________________________________________________________
b) Ordinary people often kept records of victories in battle.
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c) The people who study about the technologies are called archaeologists.
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d) The scientists’ study about the remains of buildings made of stone and brick, paintings and sculpture.
___________________________________________________________________________________
Short answer type Questions:
XIX. Identify these pictures and explain in what ways are these different from the one we used today?

a) b)

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XX. Make a list of all the objects that archaeologists may find. Which of these could be made of stone?

A: ____________________________________________________________________________________
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XXI. Identify P, Q, R, S, from the following paragraph.
The ‘P’ is generally counted from the date generally assigned to the birth of Jesus Christ. ‘Q’ means years
after the birth of Christ. All the ‘R’ before the before the birth of Christ are counted backwards and usually
have the letters ‘S’ added on.
P:_ ____________________________ Q:_____________________________
R:_______________________________ S:_______________________________
 WORKSHEET
I. Complete the word puzzle with the help of clue given

ACROSS
2. Dig under the surface of the earth.
3. A page from a palm leaf
5. Writings on relatively hard surfaces.

DOWN
1. The people who study about the objects.
4. People who study about the past.

II. Write the abbreviation of the following terms.

AD : ____________________________
CE:______________________________
BCE: _____________________________
BP: _______________________________

III. Write True or False against the following sentences and clarify the reasons.
(a) History will help you understand how this present evolved. It will tell you about the past of the present.
____________________________________________________________________________________
(b) We can live easily without use of fire. ___________________________________________________
(c) History in a sense is an adventure. It is a journey across time and space.
_____________________________________________________________________________________
IV. Look at the following picture given below and answer the following questions.
( REF.LINK : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_ancient_Egyptian_scripts)

a) What does the bird stand for? _____________________________

b) What does the lion stand for? _____________________________
c) Where was the inscribed stone found and what is the process of reading letters, as described above called?
______________________________________________________________________________________

Self-Assessment
I. How is living of the present Indian tribals different from the villages?

II. You have to interview an archaeologist. Prepare a list of five questions that you would like to ask
her/him.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
III. Why do you think ordinary men and women did not generally keep records of what they did?
 Art integrated Activity

➢ Make a model of some objects (pots, pans, ornaments) and inscriptions that used by
earlier people by using clay or metal.

Extended learning Activity

✓ Conduct an exhibition in school to show the model of objects that past people used in
thousand years ago.
 MAP WORK

• Locate the following on the map of India. (Indus, Ravi, Ganga)

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