INTER NATIONAL INDIAN SCHOOL, RIYADH
Post box No. 89788, Riyadh – 11692 (KSA)
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SUBJECT : SOCIAL STUDIES
STD: VII
HISTORY
CH.1 TRACING CHANGES THROUGH A THOUSAND YEARS
1.Aperson who makes map is called ______.
2.A place where documents and manuscripts are stored is ______.
3.______was a 14th century chronicler.
4.______was an arab geographer.
3. The term ______today we understand it as ‘India’, the modern nation state.
4.In the medieval period a ______was any stranger who was not a part of that society or culture.
6. ______copied manuscripts by hand.
7. ______means the son of a ruler.
8. ______is an assembly of elders who framed rules and regulations for the village.
9.Loving personal deity with out the aid of priests or elaborate rituals is called ______.
10. ______carries with it a sense of material progress and intellectual advancement.
ANSWERS : 1. Cartographer 2. Archives 3. Ziauddin Barani 4. Al- Idrisi 5. Hindustan 6. Scribes 7. Rajputra 8. Jati panchayat 9. Bhakti 10. Modernity
CH.3 THE DELHI SULTANS
1. Privileges claimed on account of birth is called ______.
2. ______is the social and biological differences between women and men.
3. ______- are the lands adjacent to a city or a part that supply it with goods and services.
4. A fortified settlement with soldiers is called ______.
5. ______is someone who is under the protection of another.
6. ______travel to India from Morocco in Africa.
7. ______was the first slave ruler.
8. Histories of sultans were called ______.
9. ______was the language of administration under the delhi sultans.
10. The authors of tawarikh were ______.
11. A mosque is called a ______in Arabic.
12. The new capital of ______was constructed by Muhammed Tughluq.
13. Token currency was introduced by ______.
14. ______was the leader of Mongols.
15. The special slaves purchased for military services were called ______.
ANSWERS :1. Birth right 2 gender distinctions 3. Hinderland 4. Garrison town 5.client
6. Ibn Battuta 7. Qutbuddin Aybak 8. Tawarikh 9. Persion 10.learned men 11.masjid 12. Dauladabad 13. Muhammed Tughluq 14. Genghis Khan 15. Bandagan
CH.4 THE MUGHAL EMPIRE
1. ______memory was associated with the massacre of innumerable people.
2. The mughals were proud of their ______ancestry who had captured Delhi in 1398.
3. ______was the first mughal emperor.
4. In ______Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat and captured Delhi and Agra.
5. ______divided his inheritance according to the will of his father.
6. In Iran Humayun received the help from ______
7. Akbar became independent of the regent ______..
8. ______was the Maratha chieftain.
9. The Mughals followed ______inheritance.
10. In the rule of ______the eldest son inherited his father’s estate.
11. The term ______refers to an individual who holds a position or rank.
12. Rank and salary were determined by a numerical value called ______.
13. ______wrote Akbar Nama.
14. ______is an individual who is intolerant of another person’s religious beliefs or culture.
15. Akbar developed the idea of ______or universal peace.
ANSWERS : 1.Genghis khan’s 2. Thimurid 3. Babur 4. 1526 5. Humayun 6. Safavid Shah
7.Bairam Khan 8. Sivaji 9. Coparcenary 10. Primogeniture 11.mansabdar 12. Zat 13. Abul Fazal 14. Bigot 15. Sulh-i-kul.
CH. 5 RULERS AND BUILDINGS
1. ______is the part of a building above the ground.
2. ______means coloured hard stones placed in depression carved in to marbles or sand stones creating ornate patterns.
3. ______constructed Qutbminar around in 1199.
4. ______- provide an insight into the technologies used for construction.
5. Sultan ______won universal respect for constructing large reservoir was called Hauz Sultani or the king’s reservoir.
ANSWERS: 1. Super structure 2. Pietra Dura 3. Qutbuddin Aybak 4. Monuments
5. Sultan Iltumish.
CH. 6 TOWNS, TRADERS AND CRAFTS PERSONS
1.The Rajeshvara temple was built by ______at ______.
2. Ajmir is associated with the Sufi saint ______.
3. Hampi was the capital of the ______empire.
4. The Dutch established a settlement at ______in Andhhra Pradesh.
5. ______a place where goods from diverse production centres are brought and sold.
6. ______was a Portuguese sailor, who sailed down the African coast and reached India in ______.
ANSWERS : 1. Raja Raja Chola , Thanjavur. 2. Khwaja muinuddin Chishti 4. Vijayanagara 5. Emporium 6. Vasco da Gama.
CH.7 TRIBES, NOMADS AND SETTLED COMMUNITIES
1. The Gonds lived in a vast forested region called ______.
2. Aman Das, the Gond raja of Garha Katanga assumed the title of ______.
3. ______the history of Akbar’s reign mentioned Gond kingdom of Garha Katanga had 70 thousand villages.
4. The shephered tribe of ______lived in Western Himalayas.
5. ______was Akbar’s famous general.
6. The caravan used by Banjaras were called ______.
7. In 1565 the Mughal forces under ______attacked Garha Katanga.
8. Forced labourers of Ahom state were called ______.
9. In 1662, the Mughals under ______attacked the Ahom kingdom.
10. Historical works of Ahoms were called ______.
ANSWERS: 1. Gondwana 2. Sangram Shah 3. Akbarnama 4. Gaddis 5. Raja Mansingh 6. Thanda 7. Asaf Khan 8. Paiks 9. Mir Jumla 10. Buranjis.
CH. 9 THE MAKING OF REGIONAL CULTURES
1.______means attribution of living soul to plants, inanimate objects and natural phenomena.
2. Manipravalam literally means ______or ______.
3. One of the most important ruler of Ganga dynasty was ______.
4. The word ______derived from ______means story in Sanskrit and other languages.
5. ______are small sized paintings, generally done in water colour on cloth or paper.
6. In the 7th century the Chineese traveler ______observed that languages related to Sanskrit were in used all over Bengal.
7. The Chera kingdom of ______was established in the 9th century.
8. Bengali is now recognized as a language derived from ______.
9. ______a text dealing with grammar and poetics written in Manipravalam.
10. From the 8th century Bengal became a center of a regional kingdom under the ______.
ANSWERS: 1.Animism 2. Diamonds and corals 3. Anantha varman 4. Kathak, katha 5. Miniatures 6. Xuan-zang 7. Mahodayapuram 8. Sanskrit 9. Lilathilakam 10. Palas.
CH. 10 EIGHTEENTH CENTURY POLITICAL FORMATIONS
1. The Afghan ruler ______invaded north India five times between 1748 and 1761.
2. The ruler of Iran ______sacked and plundered the city of Delhi in 1739.
3. ______was the founder of Hyderabad state.
4. ______founded his new capital at Jaipur.
5. The revenue farmers in the state of Awadh were called ______.
6. Under ______the kingdom of Bharatpur emerged as a strong state.
7. ______was the 10th Guru of Sikhs.
8. ______reunited the Sikhs and established his capital at Lahore.
9. Aurangazeb fought a protracted war in the Deccan.
10. In the 18th century the Sikhs organized theselves in to a number of bands called ______.
ANSWERS: 1. Ahmed Shah Abdali 2. Nadir Shah 3. Asaf Jah 4. Sawai Raja Jai Singh 5. Ijaradars
6. Suraj Mal 7. Guru Gobind Singh 8.Maharaja Ranjith Singh 9. Deccan 10. Misls.