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NCERT Class 6 History Chapter 1: What, Where, How & When?
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)
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