NCERT Book Class 6 Social Science (History) Chapter 1 What, Where, How And When?

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION:
WHAT, WHERE, HOW AND WHEN?

Rasheeda’s question
Rasheeda sat reading the newspaper. Suddenly, her
eyes fell on a small headline: “One Hundred Years
Ago.” How, she wondered, could anyone know what
had happened so many years ago?

Finding out what happened
Yesterday: you could listen to the radio, watch
television, read a newspaper.
Last year: ask somebody who remembers.
But what about long, long ago? Let us see how it
can be done.

What can we know about the past?
There are several things we can find out — what
people ate, the kinds of clothes they wore, the
houses in which they lived. We can find out
about the lives of hunters, herders, farmers,
rulers, merchants, priests, craftspersons, artists,
musicians, and scientists. We can also find out
about the games children played, the stories they
heard, the plays they saw, the songs they sang.

Where did people live?
Find the river Narmada on Map 1 (page 2). People
have lived along the banks of this river for several
hundred thousand years. Some of the earliest
people who lived here were skilled gatherers, —
that is, people who gathered their food. They knew
about the vast wealth of plants in the surrounding
forests, and collected roots, fruits and other forest 1
produce for their food. They also hunted animals. introduction: what,

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