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प्रश्न
How would the soldiers find peeping from the holes in the bastions useful while attacking?
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उत्तर
Soldiers found peeping from the holes in the bastions useful while attacking because holes eliminate dead ground and make it possible to fire upon any point directly in front of the bastion.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Why were bastions made in the fort wall?
Why were big holes made in them?
How would the fountains have worked?
Look carefully at the map of Golconda. On the map, arrows show all four directions.
- If you are peeping inside from Bodli Darwaza, in which direction from you is Katora Hauz?
- If someone is entering from Banjara Darwaza, in which direction from her is Katora Hauz?
- In which direction will you walk from Bala Hisar to reach Moti Mahal?
- How many gates can you see on the outer walls of the fort?
- Count how many palaces are there in the fort?
- What arrangements for water can you see inside the fort? For example, wells, tanks, step-wells.
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Now imagine, how would this garland of pots lift water from the well?
Do you now get some idea about how the tanks could have been filled by lifting water from the wells?
How is water pumped up using electricity? How is water lifted without electricity?
- What kinds of work are people doing?
- How many men and women are working?
- See, how they are taking the huge pillar up along the slope?
- Is it easier to lift a heavy thing straight up or along a slope?
- Were you able to see the man carrying water in a Mashak (leather bag)?
In which direction would the ‘toothed wheel’ move?
