(English Medium) ICSE Class 9 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions for History and Civics

What is known as the Voters List? Who prepares it?

Define the term Constituency. Name the types of constituencies.

What is meant by the term ‘election by secret ballot’?

With reference to economic organisation of the people in the Vedic Period answer the following question:

How was trade managed during this period?

State two important causes for the rise of Jainism and Buddhism.

Give two causes for the spread of Jainism.

Describe the effect of the Renaissance in the following field:

Humanism

Describe the effect of the Renaissance in the following field:

Rise of Nation-States

Give one evidence to suggest that Cholas constructed magnificent temples.

Who translated the Ramayana into Tamil?

Name any two early Aryan settlements.

Name the first of the Vedas. Or Which is the oldest Vedic literature.

What does the Rig Veda contain?

Mention any of the Vedic hymns that enable us to reconstruct the Early Vedic Civilization.

How can you say that the Rig Vedic Age was the Non ­Iron using the phase of Vedic history?

Name any two of the four Varnas.

What was the position of women in the Rig Vedic age?

What were the two main occupations of the Rig Vedic Aryans?

What form of worship did the Aryans follow during the early Vedic period?

Name the two political institutions which exercised check on the powers of the King in the Rig Vedic period.