What Books and Burails Tell Us Question Answers: NCERT Class 6 Social Science - History Our Past

Exercise 1
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Sukta                                                           well-said
Chariots                                                      used in battles
Yajna                                                          sacrifices
Dasa                                                           slave
Megalith                                                    stone boulder

Sukta is the hymns which is described in vedas which means well said; Chariots were used in battles which were fought to capture tha land; Yajna is a prayer where the sacrifices are made to the fire; Dasa were the slaves; Megaliths are derived as the single large stones.


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(a) Work
(b) south india, north east and Kashmir.
(c) indicate the exact place for burial.
(d) buying the other member of the same family at the same place.
(e) wheat, rice, pulse, barley , seasame , peas etc.


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The main difference between the two recent days books are written and read unlike the rigveda which was memorized by the students.


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Archaeologists came to know that in some burials the skeletons that found, were buried with lots of pots and some with less pots. They resulted that people buried according to the status.


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The Raja was on the top position while dasa\dasi was on the lowest position. Dasa word was used as slaves for the work. They were treated like the property of owners. Actually they were being caught during wars and they made them slaves.