The document provides an overview of what is known about the past in India from various historical sources. It discusses how early humans lived as hunter-gatherers along rivers like the Narmada and how around 8000 years ago in the Suleiman and Kirthar hills, people began growing crops like wheat and barley and domesticating animals. It describes how the earliest cities developed around 4700 years ago along the Indus River valley. It explains that manuscripts, inscriptions, and archaeology are the main sources used by historians to learn about the past. The document also notes that there are many pasts rather than just one, as histories varied between different communities. It defines BC and AD time measurements.

1. WHAT,WHERE HOW AND WHEN
HISTORY-CLASS VI
LESSON 1

2. WHAT CAN WE KNOW ABOUT
THE PAST
WHAT PEOPLE ATE
WHAT GAMES THEY PLAYED
WHERE THEY LIVED

3. WHERE DID PEOPLE LIVE

4. PEOPLE LIVING NEAR NARMADA
• THEY WERE SKILLED HUNTERS AND GATHERERS.THEY DEPENDED ON
FRUITS,BERRIES, NUTS TO SURVIVE.

5. PEOPLE LIVING IN SULAIMAN AND KIRTHAR
HILLS
• 8000 YEARS AGO MEN AND WOMEN BEGAN TO GROW WHEAT AND
BARLEY OVER HERE.
• They began rearing sheep,goat and cattle.
• They lived in villages/

6. GARO HILLS (NORTHEAST) AND VINDHYAS
(CENTRAL INDIA)
• AGRICULTURE DEVELOPED IN THIS AREA ALSO
• RICE WAS CULTIVATED FOR THE FIRST TIME.

7. INDUS AND ITS TRIBUTARIES
• 4700 YEARS AGO,EARLIEST CITIES DEVELOPED HERE.
• LATER 2500 YEARS AGO ,CITIES DEVELOPED AROUND RIVER GANGA
AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.

8. GANGA AND SON
• AREA SOUTH OF GANGA WAS KNOWN AS MAGADHA
• ITS RULERS SET UP VAST KINGDOMS

9. NAME OF INDIA
BHARATAHINDOS
/INDOS
INDUS
OR
SINDHU
IN
SANSKR
IT

10. IRAN AND GREECE
GREECE
IRAN

11. FINDING ABOUT PAST(SOURCES)-1
MANUSCRIPTS
• 1 MANUSCRIPTS(WRITTEN BY
HAND ON PALM LEAVES OR
BARK OF TREES KNOWN AS
BIRCH FOUND IN HIMALAYAS.
• SOME ARE WRITTEN IN
SANSKRIT, TAMIL OR
PRAKRIT(LANGUAGE OF
COMMON PEOPLE)
• THEY ARE WRITTEN ABOUT
RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, PRACTICES
OF KINGS ETC.

12. 2 INSCRIPTIONS 3 ARCHAEOLOGY
• WRITINGS ON HARD SURFACES
LIKE STONE OR METALS.
• THESE CONTAIN ORDERS OF
KINGS.
• THEY ALSO CONTAIN DETAILS
OF VICTORIES OF THE KINGS.
• WHO ARE ARCHAEOLOGISTS
• They study the remains of
buildings made of stone and
brick,paintings and sculpture.
They also explore and
excavate (dig under the
surface of the earth) to find
tools, weapons, pots, pans,
ornaments and coins.

13. INSCRIPTION
KANDAHAR INSCRIPTION OF ASHOKA IRON PILLAR OF DELHI

14. ONE PAST OR MANY PASTS?
• MANY ----SINCE ALL
PEOPLE,COMMUNITIES WILL
HAVE DIFFERENT HISTORY.
• MOROVER MUCH HAS NOT BEEN
WRITTEN ABOUT THE COMMON
PEOPLE.

15. WHAT DO DATES MEAN
• AD
• This
• stands for two Latin words, ‘Anno
Domini’, meaning
• ‘in the year of the Lord’ (i.e.
Christ). So 2005 can
• also be written as AD 2005
• Sometimes CE is used instead of
AD and BCE
• instead of BC. The letters CE
stand for ‘Common
• Era’ and BCE for ‘Before Common
Era’.
• BC
• These years are counted from the
• date generally assigned to the
birth of Jesus
• Christ, the founder of
Christianity. So, 2000
• means 2000 years after the birth
of Christ

16. BC AND AD

17. Thank You!
FROM: SHRADHA SINGH, KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN