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GENERAL FACTS

  • The shape of the Harppa culture is

    –Triangular

  • By radio-carbon method, the age of the Harappa Civilisation has been ascertained

    –From 2350 B.C. to 1750 B.C.

  • To which age the Harappa Civilisation belonged ?

    –Bronze Age

  • The Indus Civilisation is related to

    –Primeval-Historic age

  • In which year was the Harappan civilization first discovered?

    1921

  • Who was the discoverer of the ‘Harappa civilisation'?

    –Daya Ram Sahni

  • Who among the following started excavation at Dholavira in 1990?

    –R.S. Bisht

  • The two Indians who discovered the Indus Valley Civilisation are

    –Rakhal Das Benerji and Daya Ram Sahni

  • Whose name is related to the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation?

    –Sir Mortimer Wheeler

  • Who was in charge of the archaeological excavation of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa

    –Sir John Morrhal

TOWN PLANING

  • Where did Harappan people live?

–In urban

  • What material was used to build the house, in the Indus Valley Civilisation?

–Bricks

  • Which is the reason for placing the time/age of the Indus Valley Civilisation before that of the Aryans?

–Urban planning

  • The Indus Valley Civilisation was non Aryan because

–It was an urban civilisation

  • People of which civilisation coustructed the drainage system?

–The people of the Indus valley civilisation

  • What was the main characteristic of the Indus valley civilisation?

–A systematic urban life

  • The people of the Indus Valley generally constructed their houses from

–The fired bricks

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

  • Which of the following metals was used to make weapons and tools in Harappan cities?

–Copper

  • The Harappan brought Gold from present-day ............ in India.

–Karnataka

  • Where were the terracotta models of the plough excavated in Harappan civilisation?

–Banawali

  • Which material was mainly used to make the coins during the Harappan period?

–Steatite

  • In the seals and the terra-cota art objects of the Harappa Civilisation the thing that was/were not represented in

–Cow, House

  • What was the main occupation of the inhabitants of the Indus Valley Civilisation

–Agriculture

  • The evidences of which cultivation were found, in Lothal and Rangpur of the Indus Valley Civilisation?

–The cultivation of rice

  • The discovery of scale proved that the inhabitants of the Indus valley were familiar with measurement. Where was it discovered?

–In Harappa

  • The production of which article were the people of Harappa leader

–The tools of Bronze

  • Cultivation of cotton started

–In India

  • In the Harappa Civilisation evidence has been found of the bead making factory

–From Chahundro and Lothal

RELIGON AND PRACTICES

  • Which tree did the Indus valley people use to worship?

–Peepal

  • The Indus Valley people believed

–In Matrashakti

  • The Indus Valley people worshiped

–Pashupati

  • Whose worship serves as the proof of the organic relation between the present days Hindu religion and the ancient culture of the Indus Valley Civilisation?

–Shiva and Shakti

  • From which site the evidences of the temple in the Harappa Civilisation been have found?

–Not from any

STRUCTURAL REMAINS

  • Lothal

–Dockyard

  • Kalibanga

–A ploughed field

  • Dholavira

–Rock inscription of ten big-shaped

  • Banawali

–A facsimile of the plough made of the fired clay

  • Mohenjo daro

–A grand bath-house

  • Mohenjo daro

–A famous seal of Vrashabh

LOTHAL

  • Which of the following was a port city of the Indus Valley Civilization?

–Lothal

  • At which place in Gujarat, the relics of the Harappan civilization were found?

–Lothal

  • Which was the only Indus place with the artificial dockyard of bricks?

–Lothal

  • The port-city of the Indus Civilisation

–Lothal

  • The site of the Indus civilisation that is situated in India is

–Lothal

  • In almost all the cities of the Indus civilisation the door of entrance of the houses is from the direction opposite of the road. Which city is the exception of this?

–Lothal

MOHENJO DARO

  • What is the local name of Mohenjo daro?

–The mound of the dead

  • Harappa cities situated at Sindh

–Mohenjo daro and Chahundaro

  • The Great bath (Mahasnanagar) of the Indus valley related to?

–Mohenjo daro

  • The site of the developed Indus Civilisation where the remains of well in the houses have been found

–Mohenjo daro

  • In which province of Pakistan is the site of the ancient civilisation of Mohenjo Daro located?

–Sindh

  • Which site is known as the garden of Sindh?

–Mohenjo daro

HARAPPA

  • On the bank of which river was Harappa located

–Ravi

  • The Indus site located in Pakistan is

–Harappa

  • Harappa is related to

–The Indus Valley Civilisation

  • From which Indus Civilisation city have the evidences of a burial ground named ‘Samadhi R-37’ been found?

–Harappa

  • At the banks of which river were the ruins of Harappa and Mohenjodaro found?

–The Ravi and the Indus respectively

OTHER SITES

  • The largest ancient site of the Harappa civilisation in India

–Rakhigarhi

  • Which was the only Indus city without castle?

–Chanhudaro

  • In which state is the archaeological site of Surkotada situated?

–Gujarat

  • From which site of the Indus Valley Civilisation have the evidences of the bones of the horse been found?

–Surkotada

  • In which state is Kalibangan located?

–Rajasthan

  • Which among the following is a mature-phase Harappan site situated in the state of Rajasthan?

–Kalibangan

  • Which of the following sites of Indus valley civilization is not on the bank of river Indus?

–Ropar

  • Evidences of the rock-cut architecture in the Harappan culture have been found

–From Dholavira

  • From Sinauli (Baraut, Distt, Baghpat, U.P.) there have been found

–Sarcophagi

  • The Indus site located in the valley of the river Ghaggar and its tributaries

–Banawali

SOCIAL SYSTEM

  • According to the archaeologists, in Harappan cities the part to the west was smaller and higher, was known as.............

–Citadel

  • Which of the following were NOT a part of a citadel in Harrapan architecture?

–Residential buildings for masses

  • What was the social system of the people of Harappa?

–Proper Egalitarianism

  • Which of the following type of house remains were found in Mehrgarh site of Harappan civilization?

–Square or rectangular

  • Which of the following sites of Harappan civilization is located near Bolan Pass?

–Mehrgarh

ARIFECTS

  • Whose idol was considered as the significant creation of the people of the Indus valley?

– A dancing girl

  • The colour that was generally used in the Harappa polished wares is

–Red

  • In India the oldest evidences of silver have been found from

–The Harappan civilisation

  • The chief sources of the knowledge of the Harappan Culture are

– The archaeological excavation utensils, ornaments weapons and tools

SCRIPT

  • The first ancient civilisation developing the proper method of the art of writing

–Sumerian

  • The Indus Valley Civilisation was different from the vedic culture because

–It has all the facilities of a developed city life

–It had a pictographic script

–It had the lack of knowledge of iron and of the defensive weapons

Ancient Indian History

04. Harappan Civilization

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