NCERT Solutions For Class 6 History Social Science Chapter 2 | N.C.E.R.T & extra questions. available.

VERY SHORT QUESTIONS ANSWER.

Q1. Name the shelter of early men.

Ans. caves

Q2. Write examples of habitation sites.

Ans. These include caves and rock shelters.

Q3. Name the earliest period of history given by archaeologists.

Ans. Palaeolithic period

Q4. What kind of colours was used in the cave paintings?

Ans. Colours were made from minerals like ochre or iron ore, and charcoal.

Q5. How was wood used in the past?

Ans. Wood was used as firewood. It was also used to make huts and tools.

Q6. What is Hunsgi famous for?

Ans. Hunsgi is famous because number of early Palaeolithic sites was found here.

Q7. What does the rock paintings of Madhya Pradesh and Southern Uttar Pradesh depicts?

Ans. Rock paintings of Madhya Pradesh and Southern Uttar Pradesh depict animals and hunting scenes.

Q8. What are microliths?

Ans. Stone tools found during this period are generally tiny, and are called microliths.

Q9. Why people chose to live in natural caves?

Ans. People chose these natural caves because they provided shelter from the rain, heat and wind.

Q10. What did hunter-gatherers do to sustain themselves?

Ans. They hunted wild animals, caught fish and birds, gathered fruits, roots, nuts, seeds, leaves, stalks and eggs.

Q11. Find out the states where Bhimbetka, Hunsgi and Kurnool are located?

Ans. Bhimbetka – Madhya Pradesh

        Hunsgi - Karnataka

 Kurnool – Andhra Pradesh

SHORT QUESTIONS ANSWER.

Q1. Write about the paintings found from Madhya Pradesh and southern Uttar Pradesh?

Ans. Paintings found from Madhya Pradesh and southern Uttar Pradesh show wild animals, drawn with great accuracy and skill.

Q2. Where are natural caves and rock shelter found?

Ans. Natural caves and rock shelters are found in the Vindhyas and the Deccan plateau. These rock shelters are close to the Narmada valley.

Q3. List three ways in which hunter-gatherers used fire. Would you use fire for any of these purposes today?

Ans. Fire could have been used for many things: as a source of light, to cook meat, and to scare away animals.Today, we use fire for cooking food and to keep ourselves warm.

Q4. Write one point of difference between perennial and seasonal rivers?

Ans. Difference between perennial and seasonal rivers

Perennial rivers	Seasonal rivers
Many rivers and lakes that have water throughout the year are called Perennial rivers.	Many rivers have water during particular season i.e. rainy season are called Seasonal rivers.

Q5. What were stone tools used for?

Ans. Some of these stone tools were used to cut meat and bone, scrape bark (from trees) and hides (animal skins), chop fruit and roots. Some may have been attached to handles of bone or wood, to make spears and arrows for hunting. Other tools were used to chop wood, which was used as firewood.

Q6. Why do people who grow crops have to stay in the same place for a long time?

Ans. When they plant a seed, it takes some time to grow. Depending on the type of seeds used, the time taken would vary from days, weeks, months and years. It means they had to stay in the same place to take care of the plants by watering, weeding, driving away animals and birds – till the grain ripened. Once ripened, they had to think of ways to store it. Hence, they had to stay in the same place for a long time.

Q7. Why do archaeologists think that many people who lived in Mehrgarh were hunters to start with and that herding became more important later?

Ans. Archaeologists found the bones of many animals such as deer in the earlier levels. Hence, they could conclude that they were hunters to start with. Herding became important because they found bones of sheep and goat in the later levels.

Q8. List 3 ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from that of hunter-gatherers.

Ans. Farmers and herders would stay in one location; whereas hunter-gatherers would have to move from place to place, following the movement of animals.

1.  Farmers and herders would stay in huts or houses, whereas hunter-gatherers would stay in caves.

2.  For farmers and herders, the food source would be crops and domesticated animals like sheep, goat; whereas hunters would rely on wild animals as a source of food.

LONG QUESTIONS ANSWER.

Q1. Write a short note on Palaeolithic period, Mesolithic period and Neolithic period.

Ans. 

1. Palaeolithic period - This comes from two Greek words, ‘palaeo’, meaning old, and ‘lithos’, meaning stone. The name points to the importance of finds of stone tools. The Palaeolithic period extends from 2 million years ago to about 12,000 years ago.

2. Mesolithic period - The period when we find environmental changes, beginning about 12,000 years ago till about 10,000 years ago is called the Mesolithic (middle stone).

3. Neolithic period – The period from about 10,000 years ago, is known as the Neolithic.

Q2. Why did the hunter-gatherers travel from place to place? In what ways are these similar to/different from the reasons for which we travel today?

Ans. There are four reasons why hunter gatherers moved from place to place.

First, if they had stayed at one place for a long time, they would have eaten up all the available plant and animal resources.

Second, animals move from place to place — either in search of smaller prey, or, in the case of deer and wild cattle, in search of grass and leaves.

Third, plants and trees bear fruit in different seasons. So, people may have moved from season to season in search of different kinds of plants.

Fourth, people, plants and animals need water to survive. Water is found in lakes, streams and rivers.

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