CLASS - 6|| HISTORY|| CHAPTER - 3|| From Gathering to Growing Food||

 Chapter 3

From Gathering to Growing Food

1.     Why do people who grow crops have to stay in the same place for a long time?
Answer:

·         People who grow crops have to stay in the same place for a long time to look after plants-protecting them from birds, animals and their other fellows so that they could grow and crops or seeds could-ripen safely.

·         Settled life is useful and essential to lead a civilized life.

·         People grow crops to meet their daily food and some other needs.

2.     Look at the table on page 25 of the textbook/ If Neinuo wanted to eat rice, which are the places she would have visited?
Answer: Neinuo would have visited these places if she wanted to eat rice:
(i) Koldihwa in present-day Uttar Pradesh, and (ii) Mahagara in present-day Uttar Pradesh.

 

3.     Why do archaeologists think that many people who lived in Mehrgarh were hunters to start with and that herding became more important later?
Answer: On excavation, archaeologists have found bones of wild animals in the lowermost levels. On upper levels, they found cattle bones. This means that hunting wild animals was important much before herding was.

 

 

4.     List three ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from that of hunter-gatherers.
Answer:
The lives of farmers and herders had been different in the following ways:

·         They started leading a settled life instead of a nomadic life, like that of hunter-gatherers.

·         They became food producers instead of food gatherers. The domestication of plants and animals became part and parcel of the people of the Neolithic stage.

·         Different types of houses were built by farmers and herders. They used tools of different forms from the earlier Palaeolithic stage people. These include tools that were polished to give a fine cutting edge and mortars and pestles used for grinding grain and other plant produce.

·         Generally, farmers ate cooked and well-prepared foods, while on the other hand hunter-gatherers ate uncooked and raw food.

5.     Make a list of all the animals mentioned in the table on page 25 of the textbook. For each one, describe what they may have been used for.
Answer: 

1.     Sheep might have been used for meat, milk, and wool.

2.     Goat might have been used for meat and milk.

3.     Buffalo for meat and milk.

4.     Ox for drawing cart, chariot, and plough.

5.     Pig for meat.

6.     Dog was domesticated for safety and taking his help in hunting some of the wild animals.

7.     Other animals like horse, ox, camel, donkey, etc., were called packed animals because they were used for carrying load/carts with people.

6.     List the cereals that you eat.
Answer:
Some cereals eaten by us are listed below :

1.     Wheat

2.     Rice

3.     Maize

4.     Millets

5.     Barley

6.     Lentil

7.     Grains.

7.     Do you grow the cereals you have listed in answer no. 7? If yes, draw a chart to show the stages in growing them. If not, draw a chart to show how these cereals reach you from the farmers who grow them
Answer:
Yes, we live in a village and we grow some of the cereals.
Chart showing the stages in growing:

1.     We prepare the ground.

2.     We sow the seeds.

3.     We look after the growing plants.

4.     We water them by a tube-well.

5.     We harvest the grain.

6.     We thresh and separate husk.

7.     We grind some grain, such as wheat and barley.