Class 7 History Chapter 1 Tracing Changes Through A Thousand Years Quiz 6 (25 MCQs)

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1. A person who makes map .....
2. Where were the manuscripts placed?
3. The people who copied manuscripts by hand we known as
4. Which is one of the oldest religions in the world and is the world's third largest religion today?
5. Manuscripts were kept in .....
6. Minhaj-i-siraj was a chronicler who wrote in .....
7. Cholas, Khilji and Tuglaqs build empire that were
8. An influential wealthy individual who supports artists and craftsmen.
9. In which period the number and variety of textual records increased dramatically?
10. Bhakti and Sufi movements were of which religions?
11. Archive was a place where ..... were kept for future reference
12. ..... stretched a vast empire from Bengal in the east to Ghazni in Afghanistan.
13. In the middle of ..... century a scholar wanted to copy a book. But he did not have enough paper. So he washed the writing off a manuscript he did not want, dried the paper and used it.
14. When the term 'Hindustan' was formally used in the 13th century by Minhaj-i Siraj, he meant the areas of Punjab, Haryana, and the lands between the rivers Ganga and the Yamuna. Amir Khusrau, a Sufi musician and poet, was another notable Persian traveller to India. What term did Amir Khusrau use for India?
15. For what was the term Hindusthan used in medieval period by Minaj-i-siraj?
16. Forest-dwellers were sometimes pushed out of their lands with the spread of agricultural settlements.
17. Manuscript is
18. Knowledge of ..... earned Brahmanas a lot of respect.
19. Al-Idrisi was of Arab .....
20. Which Muslims group accepted the authority of the early leaders or Khalifas?
21. ..... is a person who copies manuscripts.
22. Who was the Arab geographer who made the map of the subcontinent?
23. The term 'Rajput' was derived from
24. What were the new crops and beverages that arrived in the Indian Subcontinent in the medieval period?
25. Which languages were spoken, according to Amir Khusrau, in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Eastern Uttar Pradesh?