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प्रश्न
What difference would be there if you were to look from a straight flat wall or a bastion at a height?
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उत्तर
Bastion ensured better safety of soldiers. It also provided a better vantage point from where a larger area could be seen. It would not have been possible from a flat wall.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Why were bastions made in the fort wall?
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.
What kind of destruction was caused because of this?
Find out from your elders about some of the things made from bronze that were, or are still used in your house. From its colour try to identify which one of them is made from copper, which is from brass, and which is from bronze.
What kinds of pots have you seen around you?
What colour was it?
Who used to live there in the olden days?

- 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)?
Use your hand movement to show in which direction the drum attached to the rod moves when the bullocks move.

In which direction would the ‘toothed wheel’ move?

