MCQs-Timeline and Sources of History-Class 6-Social Science

Timeline and Sources of History(History)

1. What is history the study of?
   a) Future events
   b) The human past
   c) Astronomy
   d) Literature
   Answer: b) The human past

2. What is the Gregorian calendar based on?
   a) Movements of the moon
   b) Birth of Jesus Christ
   c) Solar eclipses
   d) Ancient Indian systems
   Answer: b) Birth of Jesus Christ

3. What is a century?
   a) 10 years
   b) 100 years
   c) 1,000 years
   d) 1 million years
   Answer: b) 100 years

4. What do archaeologists study?
   a) Stars and planets
   b) Past human remains and objects
   c) Animals in jungles
   d) Modern buildings
   Answer: b) Past human remains and objects

5. What are fossils?
   a) Ancient coins
   b) Remains of plants, animals, or humans preserved in rock
   c) Modern carvings
   d) Paper documents
   Answer: b) Remains of plants, animals, or humans preserved in rock

6. Which term refers to a period of 1,000 years?
   a) Century
   b) Millennium
   c) Era
   d) Decade
   Answer: b) Millennium

7. Which source can give us information about ancient history?
   a) Coins
   b) Newspapers
   c) Television
   d) Internet
   Answer: a) Coins

8. When did Homo sapiens appear on Earth?
   a) 300 years ago
   b) 300,000 years ago
   c) 3 million years ago
   d) 3 billion years ago
   Answer: b) 300,000 years ago

9. What is an era?
   a) A specific day
   b) A period of time
   c) A single century
   d) A type of fossil
   Answer: b) A period of time

10. What is the Ice Age?
    a) A period of intense heat
    b) A period when much of the Earth was covered in ice
    c) A time of volcanic eruptions
    d) A time of frequent rainfall
    Answer: b) A period when much of the Earth was covered in ice

11. What is pottery an example of?
    a) Fossils
    b) Archaeological evidence
    c) Modern tools
    d) Monuments
    Answer: b) Archaeological evidence

12. What does BCE stand for?
    a) Before Common Era
    b) Before Cultural Events
    c) Between Current Eras
    d) Before Christ Era
    Answer: a) Before Common Era

13. What does CE stand for?
    a) Current Era
    b) Christian Era
    c) Common Era
    d) Calendar Era
    Answer: c) Common Era

14. What is a timeline used for?
    a) Predicting the future
    b) Measuring distances
    c) Showing the sequence of events in history
    d) Mapping locations
    Answer: c) Showing the sequence of events in history

15. Who studies ancient inscriptions?
    a) Historians
    b) Epigraphists
    c) Archaeologists
    d) Palaeontologists
    Answer: b) Epigraphists

16. What kind of evidence do palaeontologists use?
    a) Fossils
    b) Coins
    c) Pottery
    d) Paintings
    Answer: a) Fossils

17. What is rock art?
    a) Modern carvings
    b) Prehistoric paintings on cave walls
    c) Geological formations
    d) A type of fossil
    Answer: b) Prehistoric paintings on cave walls

18. How many years does a decade contain?
    a) 5
    b) 10
    c) 50
    d) 100
    Answer: b) 10

19. What was one use of fire by early humans?
    a) Melting metals
    b) Cooking food
    c) Building tools
    d) Constructing houses
    Answer: b) Cooking food

20. Where were early human settlements often located?
    a) In deserts
    b) Near rivers
    c) On mountains
    d) In caves
    Answer: b) Near rivers

21. What is a panchanga?
    a) A book of Indian history
    b) A traditional Indian calendar
    c) A map of ancient trade routes
    d) A historical monument
    Answer: b) A traditional Indian calendar

22. Who was born in 560 BCE?
    a) Jesus Christ
    b) Gautama Buddha
    c) Chandragupta Maurya
    d) Alexander the Great
    Answer: b) Gautama Buddha

23. What is metallurgy?
    a) Study of the Earth
    b) Study of fossils
    c) Extraction and use of metals
    d) Study of calendars
    Answer: c) Extraction and use of metals

24. What does the term “historian” mean?
    a) A person who studies the past
    b) A person who builds monuments
    c) A person who collects fossils
    d) A person who carves statues
    Answer: a) A person who studies the past

25. What helped early humans survive?
    a) Tools and fire
    b) Computers and machines
    c) Guns and ammunition
    d) Cars and planes
    Answer: a) Tools and fire

26. What is the study of human societies called?
    a) Archaeology
    b) Anthropology
    c) Palaeontology
    d) Epigraphy
    Answer: b) Anthropology

27. What is the term for marks left behind by ancient creatures?
    a) Artefacts
    b) Fossils
    c) Monuments
    d) Tools
    Answer: b) Fossils

28. What was the main occupation of early humans?
    a) Agriculture
    b) Hunting and gathering
    c) Mining
    d) Trading
    Answer: b) Hunting and gathering

29. Which material was used first in making tools?
    a) Metal
    b) Stone
    c) Wood
    d) Plastic
    Answer: b) Stone

30. What were the first settlements based on?
    a) Trading
    b) Agriculture
    c) Mining
    d) Hunting
    Answer: b) Agriculture

True/False Questions

1. History only studies ancient kings and queens. (False)
2. BCE means “Before Common Era.” (True)
3. Early humans lived in caves and rock shelters. (True)
4. Palaeontologists study ancient inscriptions. (False)
5. The Ice Age ended around 12,000 years ago. (True)
6. A timeline helps to understand the sequence of events. (True)
7. Fire was discovered after humans started farming. (False)
8. Early humans created rock paintings. (True)
9. Early settlements were in deserts. (False)
10. History uses multiple sources to understand the past. (True)

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