NCERT Class 6 History Chapter 1: What, Where, How & When? YouTube Lecture Handouts

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Temporal Variation

WHAT?

• Food

• Cloths

• House

“Those who don’t study the past are condemned to repeat it”

WHERE?

• Food gatherers

• Hunters

• Animal rearing

• Travel

• Wars

• Kingdoms

“History is studied geographically and geography is studied historically”

Names of India

• From Indus – Sindhu in Sanskrit

• Iranians & Greeks – Hindos or Indos

• Bharata – people in NW in Rigveda (Sanskrit)

Finding the Past – HOW

• Manuscripts (written by hand)

  • On Palm leaves or Birch tree bark

  • In Sanskrit, Prakrit or Tamil

• Inscriptions (writings on hard surface)

  • Stone or metal or baked clay

  • Have script – letter or sign

• Archaeology

• Things made and used in past

• Explored by archaeologists – excavate

• Bones of animals to find what people ate

Life Differs:

• King

• Queen

• Merchant

• Trader

Andaman – get own food

Cities – depend on others for food supplies

When

• Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC)

• AD: In the Year of the Lord

• AD or CE (Common Era)

• BC or BCE (Before Common Era)

• BP (Before Present)

-Manishika