Culture and Science of Our Past Up to 700 AD Question Answers

 Culture and Science of Our Past up to 700 AD Question Answers| Chapter 13 from History

I. Fill in the blanks:

    a.  Vaastu Shastra is a treatise on architecture and town planning.

    b.  The Vedas are the ancient scriptures of the Hindu teachings.

    c.  Ramayana and Mahabharata are the two great Indian epics.

    d. Satavahanas constructed several Buddhists  Chaityas and  Viharas .

    e. The concept of  Zero originated in Indian philosophy's concept of "Shunya".

II.  Unscramble the words:

    a. AGAMR: Vedic Village

Ans: GRAMA

    b. SAHKAO: Mauryan Ruler

Ans: ASHOKA 

    c. AKRAL: Buddhists caves in the Western Ghats

Ans: KARLA

    d. GAJAMATIBANI: Algebra as referred by Aryabhatta

Ans: BIJAGANITAM

    e. AITYRABHA: Ancient Indian Mathematician

Ans: ARYABHATTA

    f. ACKHARA-ASTAMIHA: Ancient treatise on medicines

Ans: CHARAKA-SAMAHITA

    g. SAHTSURH: Medical practitioners in Ancient India

Ans: SHASHRUTA

III. Complete the Sentences:

    1. The Bhagavad Gita is a part of Mahabharata.

    2. The Harsha Charita is a biography of King Harshavardhana .

    3. The earliest architecture in the Indus Valley Civilisation was characterized by well planned cities and houses .

    4. Gupta architecture was dedicated to various Hindu Gods.

    5. The Viharas were the dwelling places of Buddhists monks.

    6. Algebraic theories and other mathematical concepts were collected and further developed by Aryabhatta .

    7. The Greek historian Herodotus observed that Indian army used arrows tipped with iron.

IV. Answer the following questions:

    1. Which Veda mentions the phenomenon behind the occurrence of rainbow?

Ans: Atharva Veda mentions the phenomenon behind the occurrence of rainbow.

    2. What does the Bhagavad Gita contain?

Ans: The Bhagavad Gita contains a classic summary of the core beliefs of Hinduism.

    3. What is Dharmasutra?

Ans: Dharmasutra is a collection of several manuals of human conduct that form the earliest source of Hindu law.

    4. Name a few works by Kalidas.

Ans: Abhijanashakuntalam, Meghdoot and Malvikagnimitram.

    5. What were the architectural styles followed in the Vedic times?

Ans: i. There existed houses with thatched roofs.

        ii. Finely constructed multi-dwelling complexes with sheds for animals.

    6. What was Algebra known as in Sanskrit?

Ans: BIJAGANITAM

    7. Who was the ancient medical practitioner who wrote Charaka-Samahita?

Ans: Charaka was the ancient medical practitioner who wrote Charaka-Samahita.

    8. Who was Shushastra? What was his contribution to medical science?

Ans: Shushastra was a medical practitioner who lived around 1 BC in Kashi. He wrote the medical treatise. Shushastra-Samahita describing as many as seven branches of surgery.