Balbharti Maharashtra State Board Class 11 History Solutions

Chapter 1 First Farmers Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.

1A. Choose the correct alternative and write the complete sentences.

Question 1.
“Yellow River” is the English translation of the Chinese name ____________
(a) Kemet
(b) Mother
(c) Sorrow
(d) Huang He
Answer:
(d) Huang He

Question 2.
The Australian archaeologist ____________ coined the term ‘Neolithic Revolution’.
(a) Gorden Willey
(b) Gordon Childe
(c) Herodotus
(d) Collingwood
Answer:
(b) Gordon Childe



Question 3.
The neolithic people at Gilgal had systematically planted ____________ trees.
(a) guava
(b) sapodilla
(c) fig
(d) Indian blackberry
Answer:
(c) fig

Question 4.
____________ in the Shirur taluka of Pune district is an important site of the village of Chalcolithic farmers in Maharashtra.
(a) Saradwadi
(b) Ranjangaon
(c) Pabal
(d) Inamgaon
Answer:
(d) Inamgaon

1B. Find the incorrect pair from set ‘B’ and write the correct ones.

Question 1.

Set ‘A’	Set ‘B’
(1) The valley of Tigris and Euphrates	Mesopotamia
(2) The valley of Nile	Iran
(3) The valley of Huang He	China
(4) The valley of Sindhu (Indus) and Saraswati	Indian Subcontinent

Answer:
(2) The valley of Nile – Egypt

2. Complete the concept maps.

Question 1.

Answer:


3. Explain the following statements with reasons.

Question 1.
The camps of Mesolithic people developed into the first settled villages of neolithic people in Mesopotamia.
Answer:



Question 2.
‘’Huang He’ river is considered to be the mother of the Chinese culture.
Answer:

Question 3.
In the latter half of the neolithic age, Pottery-making had become an art that required special skills.
Answer:

4. State your opinion.

Question 1.
There were radical changes in the way of human life during the neolithic age.
Answer:

Question 2.
The Neolithic people invented the wheel and the technology they had developed so far, underwent a revolution.
Answer:



5. Observe the map on page 2 of your textbook and answer the following questions based on it.



Question 1.
What is the name of the sea on the African continent?
Answer:
The name of the sea on the African continent is the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 2.
In which continent did Harappan civilization originate?
Answer:
The Harappan civilization originated in the Continent of Asia.

Question 3.
What is the name of the ocean in the south of India?
Answer:
The Indian Ocean is the name of the ocean in the south of India.

6. Write short notes.

Question 1.
Neolithic ‘Jericho’
Answer:



Question 2.
‘Holocene’ epoch
Answer:

7. Answer the following questions in detail.

Question 1.
Write in detail about the ‘first farmers’ and the beginning of agriculture in India.
Answer:

Question 2.
What knowledge was essential for the Neolithic people to make pottery?
Answer:



Question 3.
Write about the trade and transport in the Neolithic age.
Answer:

Question 4.
Write about the beginning of urbanization in the Neolithic age.
Answer:

Activity (Textbook Page No. 9)

Write in detail about any of the ancient civilizations.
Answer:
Among the ten oldest civilizations in the world, Mesopotamian, Indus Valley, Egyptian and Chinese are well known.
1. The Mesopotamian Civilization:
Mesopotamia is the Greek name of the region between two rivers, Tigris and Euphrates. Meso means the ’middle one’ and Potamos means ’river’. The region between the two rivers is ’Mesopotamia’.



2. The Indus Valley Civilization:

3. The Ancient Egyptian Civilization:



4. The Chinese Civilization: