NCERT Solutions Class 6 Social Science (History) Chapter 4 What Books and Burials Tell Us

NCERT Solutions Class 6 Social Science (History)

The NCERT Solutions in English Language for Class 6 Social Science (History) Chapter – 4 (What Books and Burials Tell Us) has been provided here to help the students in solving the questions from this exercise.

Chapter – 4 (What Books and Burials Tell Us)

Let’s Recall

1. Match the columns

Answer – 

2. Complete the sentences
(a) Slaves were used for ________.
(b) Megaliths are found in ________.
(c) Stone circles or boulders on the surface were used to ________.
(d) Port-holes were used for ________.
(e) People at Inamgaon ate ________. 

Answer –

(a) Slaves were used for work.
(b) Megaliths are found in South India, Kashmir, North East.
(c) Stone circles or boulders on the surface were used to point out the exact place of burial.
(d) Port-holes were used for burying other members of the same family at the same place.
(e) People at Inamgaon ate peas, pulses, rice, barley, sesame.

Let’s Discuss

3. In what ways are the books we read today different from the Rigveda?

Answer – The books we use are written and printed. Rigveda was recited and heard rather than read. It was written down several centuries after it was first composed and printed less than 200 years ago.

4. What kind of evidence from burials do archaeologists use to find out whether there were social differences amongst those who were buried?

Answer – Archaeologists found a skeleton buried with 33 gold beads, 2 stone beads, 4 copper bangles, and one conch shell while other skeletons have only a few pots. This help archealogists to find social differences amongst those who were buried.

5. In what ways do you think that the life of a raja was different from that of a dasa or dasi?

Answer – The life of raja was different from that of a dasa or dasi in following manner:

• Raja was a powerful leader who used to rule while Dasa or dasi are captured slaves who used to serve their masters.
• Raja can perform sacrifices while dasa or dasis could not.
• Raja was a free man while dasa or dasis have to do what their masters said.

NCERT Class 6 – History (Our Pasts – I)

• Chapter 1 – What, Where, How and When?
• Chapter 2 – From Hunting – Gathering to Growing Food
• Chapter 3 – In the Earliest Cities
• Chapter 5 – Kingdoms, Kings and an Early Republic
• Chapter 6 – New Questions and Ideas
• Chapter 7 – Ashoka, The Emperor Who Gave Up War
• Chapter 8 – Vital Villages, Thriving Towns
• Chapter 9 – Traders, Kings and Pilgrims
• Chapter 10 – New Empires and Kingdoms
• Chapter 11 – Buildings, Paintings, and Books