What,where how and when(History, class VI)
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The document provides an overview of what is known about the past in India from various historical sources. It discusses how early humans lived as hunter-gatherers along rivers like the Narmada and how around 8000 years ago in the Suleiman and Kirthar hills, people began growing crops like wheat and barley and domesticating animals. It describes how the earliest cities developed around 4700 years ago along the Indus River valley. It explains that manuscripts, inscriptions, and archaeology are the main sources used by historians to learn about the past. The document also notes that there are many pasts rather than just one, as histories varied between different communities. It defines BC and AD time measurements.
What,where how and when(History, class VI)
- 1. WHAT,WHERE HOW AND WHEN HISTORY-CLASS VI LESSON 1
- 2. WHAT CAN WE KNOW ABOUT THE PAST WHAT PEOPLE ATE WHAT GAMES THEY PLAYED WHERE THEY LIVED
- 3. WHERE DID PEOPLE LIVE
- 4. PEOPLE LIVING NEAR NARMADA • THEY WERE SKILLED HUNTERS AND GATHERERS.THEY DEPENDED ON FRUITS,BERRIES, NUTS TO SURVIVE.
- 5. PEOPLE LIVING IN SULAIMAN AND KIRTHAR HILLS • 8000 YEARS AGO MEN AND WOMEN BEGAN TO GROW WHEAT AND BARLEY OVER HERE. • They began rearing sheep,goat and cattle. • They lived in villages/
- 6. GARO HILLS (NORTHEAST) AND VINDHYAS (CENTRAL INDIA) • AGRICULTURE DEVELOPED IN THIS AREA ALSO • RICE WAS CULTIVATED FOR THE FIRST TIME.
- 7. INDUS AND ITS TRIBUTARIES • 4700 YEARS AGO,EARLIEST CITIES DEVELOPED HERE. • LATER 2500 YEARS AGO ,CITIES DEVELOPED AROUND RIVER GANGA AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
- 8. GANGA AND SON • AREA SOUTH OF GANGA WAS KNOWN AS MAGADHA • ITS RULERS SET UP VAST KINGDOMS
- 11. FINDING ABOUT PAST(SOURCES)-1 MANUSCRIPTS • 1 MANUSCRIPTS(WRITTEN BY HAND ON PALM LEAVES OR BARK OF TREES KNOWN AS BIRCH FOUND IN HIMALAYAS. • SOME ARE WRITTEN IN SANSKRIT, TAMIL OR PRAKRIT(LANGUAGE OF COMMON PEOPLE) • THEY ARE WRITTEN ABOUT RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, PRACTICES OF KINGS ETC.
- 12. 2 INSCRIPTIONS 3 ARCHAEOLOGY • WRITINGS ON HARD SURFACES LIKE STONE OR METALS. • THESE CONTAIN ORDERS OF KINGS. • THEY ALSO CONTAIN DETAILS OF VICTORIES OF THE KINGS. • WHO ARE ARCHAEOLOGISTS • They study the remains of buildings made of stone and brick,paintings and sculpture. They also explore and excavate (dig under the surface of the earth) to find tools, weapons, pots, pans, ornaments and coins.
- 13. INSCRIPTION KANDAHAR INSCRIPTION OF ASHOKA IRON PILLAR OF DELHI
- 14. ONE PAST OR MANY PASTS? • MANY ----SINCE ALL PEOPLE,COMMUNITIES WILL HAVE DIFFERENT HISTORY. • MOROVER MUCH HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THE COMMON PEOPLE.
- 15. WHAT DO DATES MEAN • AD • This • stands for two Latin words, ‘Anno Domini’, meaning • ‘in the year of the Lord’ (i.e. Christ). So 2005 can • also be written as AD 2005 • Sometimes CE is used instead of AD and BCE • instead of BC. The letters CE stand for ‘Common • Era’ and BCE for ‘Before Common Era’. • BC • These years are counted from the • date generally assigned to the birth of Jesus • Christ, the founder of Christianity. So, 2000 • means 2000 years after the birth of Christ
- 16. BC AND AD
- 17. Thank You! FROM: SHRADHA SINGH, KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN