Class 6 Social Science
From Hunting - Gathering to Growing Food
Q.1
Complete the sentences
(a) Hunter-gatherers chose to live in caves and rock shelters because –
(b) Grasslands developed around —
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Q.2
Why do people who grow crops have to stay in the same place for a long time?
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Q.3
Why do archaeologists think that many people who lived in Mehrgarh were hunters to start with and that herding became more important later?
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Q.4
Why did the hunter-gatherers travel from place to place? In what ways are these similar to/different from the reasons for which we travel today?
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Q.5
List three ways in which hunter-gatherers used fire (see page 14). Would you use fire for any of these purposes today?
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Q.6
List three ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from that of hunter-gatherers.
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