Exercise - Question:
Q1. Why do people who grow crops have to stay in the same place for a long time?
Answer:
People who grow crops have to stay at one place for a long time because the fields has to be looked after, the plants had to be watered and plants had to be protected from birds and animals so that they could grow and the seed would ripen.
Q2. Look at the table on page 25. If Neinuo wanted to eat rice, which are the places she should have visited?
Answer:
If Neinue wanted to eat rice she should have gone to state of West Bengal (a majar rice produce area).
Q3. Why do archaeologists think that many people who lived in Mehrgarh were hunters to start with and that herding became more important later?
Answer:
Archaeologist think many people who lived in Mehrgarh were hunter because they have found bones of many kinds of animals from earliest levels. These including bones of wild animals such as deer and pig. In later levels they found more bones of sheep and goat and in still later levels, cattle bones are more common.
Q4. State whether true or false:
(a) Millets have been found at Hallur.
(b) People in Burzahom lived in rectangular houses.
(c) Chirand is a site in Kashmir.
(d) Jadeite, found in Daojali Hading, may have been brought from China.
Answer:
(a) True (b) False (c) False (d) True
Q5. List three ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from that of huntergatherers.
Answer:
| Farmer herder | Hunter - gather |
| farmer and to stay at one place because they had to lend the plants and look after the field. | The hunter had to places where game was plentiful. |
| Farmers could much more than was needed by his family. | The hunters -gatherers collected that was needed by them. |
| The stored the surplus food or sold them in the market. | They could not store food or sell them in the market. |
Q6. Make a list of all the animals mentioned in the table (page 25). For each one describe what they may hav e been used for.
Q7. List the cereals that you eat.
Answer: The cereals are wheat, rice, maize, barely, jower, bajra.
Q8. Do you grow the cereals you have listed in answer no. 7? If yes, draw a chart to show the stages in growing them. If not, draw a chart to show how these cereals reach you from the farmers who grow them.
Answer:
The farmers grow the cerals. The various steps involve are:
(i) Ploughng the field and putting manure.
(ii) Sowing the seeds.
(iii) Looking after the tender plants and saving them from pests.
(iv) Watering the fields when necessary.
(v) Harvesting the corp.
(vi) Storing them in the sheds.
The cerals reach to the people from the farmers. The chart given below show it.
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The crop are purchased by the middle man from the farmers. They bring it to the cities. || They sell to the wholesale merchant or a retailer. || We buy it from shop, either from the wholesale mechant or retailar. |
