6th std Social Science Chapter - 1. When, where and How History is the study of past events set in a chronological order. The word history has been derived from the Greek word historia. It means narration of the past events. The Scholars who help us to reconstruct the stories of the past called historians. Importance of Studying the past: To understand people and societies better. To survive difficult time. To know our own route. To develop an objective perspective

1. Prepared By: Navya Rai
Grade – 6 – Social Science - History
Chapter 1 – When, Where and How

2. What is History?
 History is the study of past events set in a
chronological order.
 The word history has been derived from the Greek
word historia.
 It means narration of the past events.
 The Scholars who help us to reconstruct the
stories of the past called historians.

3. Importance of Studying the Past
 To understand people and societies better.
 To survive difficult time.
 To know our own route.
 To develop an objective perspective

4. Time and Dates
 Historians have divided the past into three broad
time periods to make the study more convenient:
Classification of History
Prehistory Protohistory History

5. Dating the Events of History
 History is the study of past events in
chronological order.
 The year of Jesus birth was assigned as year one.
 The years before real one are known as before
Christ or B.C
 The years after that are known as Anno Domini
or A.D. which means in Latin “In the year of our
Lord”.

6. How do we name Centuries?
 A century is hundred years.
 Therefore the years between 1 to year
100 is referred as first century CE.

7. Applying Geography to Interpret the
Past
 Geography is helpful in understanding the
location of settlements, the movement of
people and the creation of States.
 1. Why did the earliest cities flourish near the banks of rivers?
 2. Discovery of Monsoon
Because of
Farming

8. Conti…
 3. Geography also tells us that about India has a long
coastline with many harbours and natural ports.
 4. Himalayan Mountains; Mountain passes in the
Himalayan range made it possible for people from Iran,
Afghanistan and Central Asia to enter India.

9. Timeline
 A timeline is a way of
displaying a list of events
in chronological order.

10. Sources of History
 The sources of History are broadly divided
into two categories.
Sources of
Information
Archeological
Sources
Monuments Inscriptions Coins Artefactts
Literary
Sources
Religious Secular
Foreign
Accounts

11. Archaeological Sources
 The study of the past examining the remaining
materials is called archeology.
 The people who study these remains are
known as archaeologists.
 Archaeological sources are buried under the
ground and can be recovered by digging up
the ground. This process of digging is called
excavation. The Archaeological Survey of
India (ASI) was established in
1861 during the British rule in
India.

12.  Monuments: Monuments include temples, mosques,
tombs, churches, forts, palaces, step-wells and rock-
cut caves.
Examples: Taj Mahal
Pillar of Ashoka
 The study of
inscriptions known as
epigraphy. Inscriptions inform us about the life and
reign of kings.

13.  Coins : The study of coins is called
numismatics. Hoards of coins have been
recovered from different parts of the country.
 The coins discovered were made of various
metals like copper, bronze, gold and silver.
The study of the old writing systems
found on the inscriptions and other
old records is called palaeography.

14. Global Connect
Inscriptions of ancient times were written in many
scripts and languages. The Egyptians developed one of
the earliest scripts in history, called hieroglyphs.
Hieroglyphs involved pictographic representation of
objects. Each object denoted a letter of the alphabet.
For example, a palm denoted the letter B, while the
lion stood for the letter L. The historians gradually
deciphered their script and read their inscriptions.

15.  Artefacts: Artefacts are old pieces of things or
belongings of people.
 They include pottery, jewellery, toys, seals, pieces of cloth
and other remains which the people used during the course
of their lives.

16.  Literary Sources: Literary sources comprise all types of
texts written on various materials.
 Our ancestors wrote on birch bark or palm leaves known as
bhojpatras.
 Literary sources inform us about the political, social,
economic, religious and cultural life of our ancestors.

17. Literary sources broadly divided into
three categories:
Literary
Sources
Religious
Literature
Secular
Literature
Foreign
Accounts

18. Religious
Literature
• Vedas, the
Ramayana,
the
Mahabharata,
the Puranas
and the
Aranyakas
Secular
Literature
• The Dharma
Sutras and
Kautilyas
Arthashastra
• Kalidasa,
Surdarka,
Bhasa,
Banabhatta
Foreign
Accounts
• Indika by
Megasthenes
• Fa-Hsein and
Hiuen Tsang
from China

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