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(a) Some elaborate ritual of vital importance, including a corporate social life
(b) Storage of water to be used during drought or emergency
(c) Swimming exercises and water sports
(d) Community bathing
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (b)
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Question : 1
The unique structure in Mohenjodaro was:
a) Dockyard
b) Granary
c) Assembly hall
d) Bathing pool
Answer »Answer: (d)
The bathing pool was the unique structure of Mohenjodaro. It measures 11.88 × 1.01 × 2.43 mt. The floor of the bath pool was made of burnt bricks.
Question : 2
Which of the following valleys is known for having a continuous succession of paleolithic paintings of different periods?
a) Sohan valley
b) Bhader valley
c) Bhimbetka
d) Buharbulang valley
Answer »Answer: (c)
Question : 3
With reference to the Great Bath of Mohenjodaro, consider the following statements
- It was built by baked bricks.
- The length of the Bath is 12 metres, breadth 7 meters and depth is around 2.5 metres.
- The outer walls of the Bath are plastered by on inch thick plaster of Paris.
- By the side of the Bath, there was the residence of priests who use to come down for bath on special occasions.
a) 1 and 2
b) 1 and 4
c) 1, 2 and 4
d) 2 and 3
Answer »Answer: (c)
Question : 4
Consider the following statements :
- The Harappan economy was based on agriculture, cattle rearing and crafts.
- The Indus valley people had an elaborate drainage system.
- In kot Diji pre-Harappan settlement has not been found.
- Sugarcane was not grown in Indus civilization.
a) 1 only
b) 1, 3 and 4
c) 2 only
d) 3, and 4
Answer »Answer: (c)
Question : 5
Which of the following correctly describes the land of the Seven Rivers (Sapta Sindhu) where the initial Aryan settlements were located?
a) The region from Eastern Afghanistan to the upper valley of the Ganges
b) The land of the Indus and its principal tributaries
c) The Punjab and Delhi region
d) The Indus Valley region
Answer »Answer: (b)
Question : 6
Which of the following statements are correct with regard to the geographical extent of Harrapan Civilisation?
- The Indus Valley Civilization encompassed most of Pakistan and parts of northwestern India, Afghanistan and Iran, extending from Baluchistan in the west to Uttar Pradesh in the east, northeastern Afghanistan to the north and Maharashtra to the south.
- Many Indus Valley Civilisation sites have also been discovered along the Ghaggar-Hakra beds.
- Due to its distinct geographical feature, the agro-pastoral economy was the dominant feature in this region.
- The extent of Indus Valley Civilization is smaller than the ancient civilization of both Egypt and Mesopotamia.
a) 2, 3 and 4
b) 1, 2 and 3
c) 1, 3 and 4
d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer »Answer: (c)
The major rivers included the Indus, the Saraswati, Hakra-Ghaggar and their tributaries. This makes it the most geographically extensive of all ancient civilisations thus discovered. Far larger, in fact, than both Egypt and Mesopotamia together approximately 1,300,000 square miles.
The archaeological excavations reveal that this culture was spread over a vast area which included not only the present-day states of India such as Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Western Uttar Pradesh but also Pakistan and some parts of Afghanistan.
Some important sites of this civilization are
- Manda in Jammu and Kashmir;
- Shortughai in Afghanistan;
- Harappa in Western Punjab (Pakistan);
- Mohenjodaro and Chanhudaro in Sind;
- Kalibangan in Rajasthan;
- Lothal and Dholavira in Gujarat;
- Banawali and Rakhigarhi in Haryana;
- Daimabad in Maharashtra,
- while Sutkagendor on the Makran Coast (near Pakistan-Iran border) is the westernmost site of the Harappan civilization and
- Alamgirpur in western Uttar Pradesh marks its easternmost limit.
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