1. WORKSHEET 1
Chapter1: Tracing Changes Through A
Thousand Years
(SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT)
(Max Marks -25)
Objective Type Questions (1 mark each)
Q1. Fill in the blanks with the correct answer from the box given below:
a) One of the oldest Arabian cartographer was _______.
b) Minhaj-i-Siraj was a chronicler who wrote in ______.
c) In the sixteenth century Babur used the word ______ to denote the fauna and culture of the
people of the inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent.
d) Apart from architecture, inscriptions and coins, historians also rely on ____ to study a period.
e) _________ was a fourteenth century chronicler.
f) Ziyauddin Badani wrote his first chronicle in ____.
g) A person who makes maps is known as a ______.
h) The place where documents and manuscripts are stored is known as an _____.
Ziyauddin Barani Hindustan Al-Idrisi textual records Persian 1356 cartographer archive
Q2. Which areas did Minhaj-i-Siraj refer to by using the word Hindustan? (1mark)
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Q3. Who collected the manuscripts between 700 and 1750 B.C? (1 mark)
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Q4. Q. 9. What was the outcome of easy availability of paper in the 14th
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Q5. What did the copying of manuscripts lead to? (2 marks)

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Q6. Why was the period between 700 and 1750 BC a period of great mobility? (2marks)
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Q7. Whom did the term ‘Rajput’ refer to between the eighth and fourteenth centuries? (2marks)
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Q8. What qualities did the Rajputs have? (2 marks)
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VALUE BASED QUESTION (5 Marks)
Q. A. Give answers of the following questions,basedon the given passage :
Many rulers were patrons of Islam and the ulama — learned theologians and jurists. And
like Hinduism, Islam was interpreted in a variety of ways by its followers. There were the
Shia Muslims who believed that the Prophet’s son-in-law, Ali, was the legitimate leader of
the Muslim community and the Sunni Muslims who accepted the authority of the early
leaders (khalifas) of the community, and the succeeding Khalifas. There were other important
differences between the various schools of law (Hanafi and Safi’i mainly in India) and in theology
and mystic traditions.
1. Who were the ulamas?
2. Name the two followers of the Muslim religion.
3. Who was considered to be the legitimate leader of the Muslim religion?
4. Who were the khalifas?
5. What were the two schools of law according to the Muslims?
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