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Which city does not belong to Harappa Civilization?

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  1. Lothal

  2. Mohen-jo-daro

  3. Memphis

  4. Banavali

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Memphis belonged to the Egyptian Civilization. According to legend related by Manetho, the city was founded by the pharaoh Menes. Capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom, it remained an important city throughout ancient Mediterranean history.

Which one of the following statements about the Indus culture is the least possible?

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  1. The Indus culture originated from the peasant cultures of sind & Baluchistan

  2. The Indus culture originated from the Kalibanga I culture

  3. The Indus culture is an expression of Sothi culture

  4. The Indus culture sprang directly as an urban culture

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The different stages of the indigenous evolution of the Indus can be documented by an analysis of four sites that reflect the sequence of the four important stages or phases in the pre-history and proto-history of the Indus valley region.

The sequence begins with the transition of nomadic herdsmen to settled agricultural communities as per the evidence found at the first site i.e. Mehrgarh near the Bolan Pass. It continues with the growth of large villages and the rise of towns in the second stage exemplified at Amri. The third stage in the sequence leads to the emergence of the great cities as in Kalibangan and finally ends with their decline, which is the fourth stage and exemplified by Lothal. Amri, Kot-Dijian, and Kalibangan cultures are stratigraphically found to be pre-Harappan. The pre-Harappan culture of Kalibangan in Rajasthan is termed as Sothi culture by Amalananda Ghosh, its excavator. The Harappan were owed certain elements such as the fish scale and pipal leaf to the Sothi ware.
The Indus cities are noted for their urban planning, a technical and political process concerned with the use of land and design of the urban environment. They are also noted for their baked brick houses, elaborate drainage systems, water supply systems, and clusters of large, nonresidential buildings. Since the culture was not dependent on peasants, Option A is the least possible statement about Indus culture. 


Cotton weaving probably began in ____________.

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  1. the Indus Valley civilization.

  2. China

  3. Southeast Asia.

  4. Sumer

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Correct Option: A

The script of Indus valley has been ___________.

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  1. About to be deciphered

  2. Not deciphered

  3. Difficult to be deciphered

  4. Deciphered (translated)

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Correct Option: B

Metals known to Indus Valley Civilization were:

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  1. Gold, copper, silver, bronze but not iron

  2. Silver, iron, bronze but not gold

  3. Iron, copper, gold but not silver

  4. Zinc, silver, iron but not gold.

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Gold, copper, silver, bronze metals were known to Indus Valley Civilization but not iron. The Indus valley people or Harappan people not discovered iron. The Indus Valley Civilization was a Bronze Age Civilization extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India, it was one of three early Civilization of the Old World. Inhabitants of the ancients Indus river valley developed new techniques in handicraft (carnelian products, seal carving) and metallurgy (copper, bronze, lead, and tin).

The script of lndus valley Civilization is ________.

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  1. Persian

  2. Dravidian

  3. Sanskrit

  4. Undeciphered

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Certain Seals and tablets found in Indus Valley civilisation have inscriptions which indicate towards a script being used during that time. It is a set of symbols or pictures whose meaning has not been deciphered till yet. These seals and tablets were used for identification during trade. It has been established that the script was written from right to left.

Main channels of our knowledge about the Indus Valley Civilization are _____________.

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  1. inscriptions

  2. coins

  3. palmand barch leafmanuscripts

  4. archaeological excavations

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Main channels of our knowledge about the Indus Valley Civilization are Archaeological excavations. In archaeology, excavation is the exposure , processing and recording of archaeological remains. An excavation site is a site being studied. It is very helpful to bringing the past to life. Excavation involves the recovery of several types of data from a site

Which of the following civilisations is not associated with the Harappan Civilisation?

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  1. Mesopotamian

  2. Egyptian

  3. Mayan

  4. Chinese

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Correct Option: D

Of the following scholars who was the first to discover the traces of the Harappan Civilisation?

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  1. Sir John Marshall

  2. RD Banerji

  3. A Cunningham

  4. Daya Ram Sahani

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Correct Option: C

Match the location of the following Harappan sites:

List-I(Sites) List-II(States)
A. Ropar i. Uttar Pradesh
B. Alamgirpur ii. Punjab
C. Kalibangan iii. Gujarat
D. Dholavira iv. Rajasthan
E. Banawali v. Haryana
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  1. A-ii, B-i, C-iv, D-iii, E-v

  2. A-i, B-ii, C-iii, D-iv, E-v

  3. A-ii, B-i, C-iii, D-iv, E-v

  4. A-ii, B-iii, C-i, D-v, E-iv

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Correct Option: A