HISTORY CHAPTER 5 CLASS VI

1. CLASS-VI
HISTORY
BY SHRADHA SINGH
(KVS)

2. Oldest Books in the World :-
Four Vedas :-
Rigveda ,
Samaveda
Yajurveda and
Atharvaveda .
Oldest Vedas :-Rigveda Contains more than
1000 hymns or sukta or well said . It is in
old sanskrit differ from present sanskrit.
These are composed in praise of Agni(fire
god), Indra (warrior god), Soma (plant)

3. Vedic Rishis who composed these hymns
and taught students to recite and
memorise these

4. Rigveda was recited and heard .
Three Important Gods :-
Agni – God of Fire .
Indra – A Warrior God.
Suriya- Sun God .

5. SANSKRIT AND OTHER LANGUAGES
Languages Area Family
North east Indo-Tibetan
family
Jharkhand and
parts of Central
India
Austro0Asiatic
family
Tamil,Telugu,
Kannada,
Malayalam
South Dravidian

6. HOW HISTORIANS STUDY RIGVEDA
Some hymns are also in the form of dialogues
.For example dialogue between Sage
Viswamitra a nd two rivers( Beas and Satluj)
worshipped as rivers.

8. There Two Groups who are described
in terms of their work.
1. Priest or Brahmins
2. Rajas – They did not have capital cities
,Palaces or Armies.

9. Community is described as jana
and Vish . The word Vaishya comes from
Vish.
1..Vish or jana are mentioned
.For example –puru jana , Bharat Vish
etc.
2. Aryas and Dasyus: Those
who composed hymns were Aryas
and their Opponents were Dasas or
Dasyus.
WORD TO DESCRIBE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE

10. • Stone boulders , known as Megaliths
were carefully arranged by the people to
mark Burial sites.
• Found in Deccan,South India,North
East and Kashmir

11. •The dead were buried with
distinctive pots ,which are called Black and
red ware . Skeletons , Horses , ornaments
some iron tools are also found.

14. In Brahmagiri one Skeletons was
found with 33 old beads 2 stone
beads and 4 copper Bangles and
one shell.
Other Skeletons are not Having any
Ornaments .This shows Social status
Some megaliths contains more than one
skeletons .Stone circles or boulders
served as sign posts to find the burial site
.

15. It is a site on the river ghod a tributary of the river
Bhima. Here adults were buried in the ground with
head towards north. Sometimes dead were buried
within the houses .Vessels with food and water were
placed with the dead.
 One Burial was found in a clay vessel with four
legs in a five roomed houses.

17. •seeds of wheat, barley,rice, pulses, millets,
peas and sesame (AGRICULTURE)
• Bones of a number of animals, many
bearing cut marks that show they may have
been used as food, have also been found.
These include cattle, buffalo, goat, sheep,
dog, horse, ass, pig, sambhar, Spotted deer,
blackbuck, antelope, hare, and mongoose,
besides birds, crocodile, turtle, crab and
fish. There is evidence that fruits such as
ber, amla, jamun, dates and a variety of
berries were collected.