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CBSE Board NCERT Solutions for Class 6th Histroy Chapter 3:From Gathering to Growing Food


Page No: 31

Let’s Recall

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 because they had to look after the crops. The plants had to be watered and had to be protected from birds and animals so that they could grow and the seeds would ripen.

2. Look at the table on page 25. If Neinuo wanted to eat rice, which are the places she should have visited?
Answer:
If Neinuo wanted to eat rice, she should have visited Koldihwa and Mahagara (both are 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:
Archaeologists think that many people who lived in Mehrgarh were hunters to start with and that herding became more important later because at earlier levels of the excavation site bones of wild
animals such as the deer and pig were found but at later levels more bones of sheep, goat and cattle bones are most common.

4. State whether true or false:

(a) Millets have been found at Hallur.
► True

(b) People in Burzahom lived in rectangular houses.
► False

(c) Chirand is a site in Kashmir.
► False

(d) Jadeite, found in Daojali Hading, may have been brought from China.
► True

Let’s Discuss

5. List three ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from that of hunter-gatherers.
Answer:
Three ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from hunt-gatherers are:
• Hunt-gatherers keep moving from place to place in search of food while farmers and herders grow their food from their living place.
• Hunt-gatherers did not build any permanent houses mostly they live in caves while farmers and herders build huts and houses.
• Hunt-gatherers had no role in protecting animals and plants while famers and herders protect animals and plants.

6. Make a list of all the animals mentioned in the table (page 25). For each one, describe what they may have been used for.
Answer:
Animal     
Use
Sheep     Meat and Wool
Goat     Milk and meat
Cattle     Milk and its products
Dog     Look after fields
Buffalo     Milk
Ox     Ploughing the fields and pulling carts
Pig     Meat

Let’s Do

7. List the cereals that you eat.
Answer:
Wheat, Rice, maize, barley, bajra etc.

8. 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:
No, I don’t grow these cereals.
The cereals reach from the farmers through following process.
Farmers → Middle man → Wholesaler → Retailer → We (buyer)

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