CH 1 WHAT WHERE , HOW AND WHEN

a painting on rock (as a cave wall, cliff, or boulder) made by primitive peoples.

Indus River, Tibetan and Sanskrit Sindhu, Sindhi Sindhu or Mehran, great trans-Himalayan river of South Asia. 

Greeks called Indians Hindu or Indu. Explanation: Greeks for identification of people living near Indus valley/river called them Hindus or Indus. The Indus River flows through the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent.

Middle English monasterie, from Late Latin monasterium, from Late Greek monastērion, from Greek, hermit’s cell, from monazein to live alone, from monos

Manuscript Inscription Characteristic It is handwritten records of the past. It is not written but engraved records of the past. Material It is written on the surfaces of palm leaves, the bark of birch tree, vellum, papyrus, parchment, etc. It is engraved record of kings and important events on surfaces like rocks, stones, walls of …

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Hunting and gathering constitute the oldest human mode of making a living, and the only one for which there is an uninterrupted record from 

Early people began altering communities of flora and fauna for their own benefit through means such as fire-stick farming and forest gardening very early. Wild grains have been collected and eaten from at least 105,000 years ago, and possibly much longer.

Magadha is the kingdom located to the south of River Ganga. it was a very powerful kingdom with powerful rulers. And hence it was obviously it was first big kingdom. So the correct match for Magadha is “First big kingdom”.

Together with the rivers Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej, Jhelum, Beas and the extinct Sarasvati River, the Indus forms the Sapta Sindhu (“Seven Rivers”) delta in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It has 20 major tributaries.

It is one of the rivers in India that flows in a rift valley, bordered by the Satpura and Vindhya ranges. As a rift valley river, the Narmada does not form a delta; Rift valley rivers form estuaries.