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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”

Illustration: WHERE?

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)
Illustration: When

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