Class VI - History

Chapter - 3 From Gathering to Growing Food

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  • The new stone age began another period ever.
  • After having an itinerant existence for a long time, man around 10,000 years started to have a settled existence
The Beginning of Food Produce:
  1. As atmosphere of the world changed man watched a few things - regions where eatable plants were discovered, how seeds severed stalks, fell on the ground and how new plants grew from them.
  2. Man began developing yields.
  3. The principal harvests to be developed were cereal and barley.
  4. This is the means by which by utilization of sickle men progressed toward becoming food producer and farmer.
  5. Agriculture changed the life of man. They started leading a settled life.
Men as Herders:
  1. Humans even started to tame or tame creatures like dog, horse, pig, goat, donkey, sheep, and so forth.
  2. The principal animal to be tamed was dog.
  3. Animals provided milk, meat and even worried about burden on their back.
Human as Inventors of Wheel:
  1. The revolution in early man’s life came with the invention of wheel.
  2. Wheel transformed man’s life.
  3. Travelling and carrying heavy objects from one place to another place became faster.
How was Invention of Pottery Important:
  • Man learnt to make dirt stoneware molded by hand sponsored in flame.
  • Potter's wheel helped them to make pots of various shapes and sizes.
How do we know about Farmers and Herders:
  1. Archeologists have discovered many hints of life of early ranchers.
  2. Traces of agriculturists and herders were accessible through hints of pottery, pit houses, painting, canvases and day by day life.
  3. ) Traces were found in Mehrgarh, Burzahom at North-Eastern parts of India and so on.
The Chalicolithic Age:
  1. It was around 6,000 years back that man began utilizing copper.
  2. Tools of copper were superior to that of stone.
  3. It was likewise called the Copper Stone Age.
  4. It denoted a vital change from utilization of stones to metals.
The North-West Mehrgarh:
  1. The most punctual known development of the Indian subcontinent was in Mehrgarh (now Pakistan).
  2. It was here that man initially tamed animals and raised them around 7,000 BC.
  3. Charred grains and bones of creatures were found here.
  4. Glazed faience globules were made.
The North-East:
  1. Evidence of early settlements were found in Manipur, Tripura, Garo Hills.
  2. One essential Neolithic site in Assam was Daojali Hading. Hints of cleaned stone devices, earthenware production and kitchen things were found here.

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