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Chapter 1 First Farmers Solutions

Complete Maharashtra State Board Balbharati & Yuvakbharati textbook solutions for Chapter 1 First Farmers. Step-by-step solved exercises, numerical problems, and digest answers.

20 Solved Questions• 3 Diagrams• 670 words

Maharashtra State Board Class 11 History Solutions Chapter 1 First Farmers

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

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution
“Yellow River” is the English translation of the Chinese name ____________ (a) Kemet (b) Mother (c) Sorrow (d) Huang He
Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:
(d) Huang He
Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution
The Australian archaeologist ____________ coined the term ‘Neolithic Revolution’. (a) Gorden Willey (b) Gordon Childe (c) Herodotus (d) Collingwood
Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:
(b) Gordon Childe
Question 3 Maharashtra Board Solution
The neolithic people at Gilgal had systematically planted ____________ trees. (a) guava (b) sapodilla (c) fig (d) Indian blackberry
Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:
(c) fig
Question 4 Maharashtra Board Solution
____________ 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
Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:
(d) Inamgaon

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

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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

Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:

(2) The valley of Nile – Egypt

2. Complete the concept maps.

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3. Explain the following statements with reasons.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution
The camps of Mesolithic people developed into the first settled villages of neolithic people in Mesopotamia.
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Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution
‘’Huang He’ river is considered to be the mother of the Chinese culture.
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Question 3 Maharashtra Board Solution
In the latter half of the neolithic age, Pottery-making had become an art that required special skills.
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4. State your opinion.

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There were radical changes in the way of human life during the neolithic age.
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Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution
The Neolithic people invented the wheel and the technology they had developed so far, underwent a revolution.
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5. Observe the map on page 2 of your textbook and answer the following questions based on it.

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What is the name of the sea on the African continent?
Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:
The name of the sea on the African continent is the Mediterranean Sea.
Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution
In which continent did Harappan civilization originate?
Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:
The Harappan civilization originated in the Continent of Asia.
Question 3 Maharashtra Board Solution
What is the name of the ocean in the south of India?
Solution & Step-by-Step Answer:
The Indian Ocean is the name of the ocean in the south of India.

6. Write short notes.

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Neolithic ‘Jericho’
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‘Holocene’ epoch
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7. Answer the following questions in detail.

Question 1 Maharashtra Board Solution
Write in detail about the ‘first farmers’ and the beginning of agriculture in India.
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Question 2 Maharashtra Board Solution
What knowledge was essential for the Neolithic people to make pottery?
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Question 3 Maharashtra Board Solution
Write about the trade and transport in the Neolithic age.
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Question 4 Maharashtra Board Solution
Write about the beginning of urbanization in the Neolithic age.
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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:

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Chapter 2 First Cities of India