Test Preparation on General Knowledge Test Series For History Paper-1
Indus Valley Civilization was discovered in:
(b) The Indus Valley was discovered by Dayaram
Sahni in 1921. It is one of the world’s earliest
urban civilizations alongside its contemporaries,
Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. The Indus Valley
covers modern day Pakistan and the northwest of
India.
The people of Indus Valley Civilization were
almost :
(c) Indus Valley Civilization had been a combination
of diverse racial elements. Certain anthropological
investigations and examinations of the human
remains show that four racial types existed in this
civilization namely Proto-Australiod, Mediterranean,
Alpinoid and the Mongoloid. Most of the people
belonged to Mediterranean race.
Which metal was unknown to Indus Valley
Civilization?
(d) Iron was not known to Indus Valley Civilization
people. The first evidence of Iron is found about l000
B.C. from Ataranjikhera in Etah district.
The nature of Indus Valley Civilization was:
(a) Indus Valley Civilization was urbanized, highly
developed and sophisticated. The ruins exhibit high
level of planning in the cities. Excavations have
indicated that the buildings were built with baked
bricks. The streets were well constructed at right
angles with an elaborate and covered drainage
system. The civilization also had public buildings
including the vast granaries and the Great Bath at
Mohenjodaro.
Indus Valley Civilization belongs to:
A statue of bearded man was found at
(b) A well-known piece of art of the Harappan
period is a stone sculpture of a bearded man
discovered at Mohenjodaro. His eyes are half closed
indicating a posture of meditation. Across the left
shoulder is an embroidered cloak. In the opinion of
some scholars, it could be a bust of a priest.
In Indus Valley Civilization, the script was:
(c) Indus Scripts are popularly known as
Boustrophedon scripts which are still not deciphered
by the historians, researchers and scholars.
In Indus Valley Civilization, the script was:
(a) Dholavira is the latest Indus Valley Civilization
site. This site was discovered by J.P. Joshi in 1967-68.
Dholavira is located at Kutch district in Gujarat.
Harappa is located on the bank of river:
(b) Harappa was situated on the banks of river
Ravi in Montgomery district of western Punjab (in
Pakistan).
The local name of Mohenjodaro is:
(c) Mohenjodaro is not the original name, of
course, but one given by local villagers referring
to the ‘mound of the dead’: the tower and hillocks
of abandoned debris of bricks that they had their
forefathers had noticed in the surroundings.
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