SSLC (English Medium) Class 9 - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions

What does the term Mesopotamia mean?

With whom did the Mesopotamia trade?

Mention the contribution of the Mesopotamian civilization.

Answer all the questions given under each caption:

Sumerians

1. Who were the Sumerians?
2. When and where did the Sumerians settle down?
3. Where did they originate from?
4. Who were the chief priests in Sumerian society?

Answer all the questions given under each caption:

The Akkadians.

1. When and where did the Akkadians dominate?
2. Mention about the Cuneiform records of Akkadians.
3. What was the change brought in the city of Akkad?
4. Who were Babylonians?

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Mesopotamians in the field of Science.

1. What concepts were developed by the Mesopotamians in the field of Mathematics?
2. What idea was conceived by them and what did they formulate?
3. What was created by them?
4. What was developed by them?

Sumerian religion was polytheistic. How?

Muvendars belonged to ______ Period.

The Cheras controlled the region of present-day ______.

______ are stone artifacts of small size.

1. The chimpanzee is genetically the closest to humans.
2. Hominins & their origin have been traced to Asia.
3. The Hominins emerged around 6 to 5 million years ago.
4. The Great Rift valley in Africa has many sites for the Prehistoric period.

The earliest tools made by human ancestors are found in ______ in Kenya.

______ people buried the dead people systematically.

The Great Rift valley in Africa has evidence for the Prehistoric period. Discuss.

Write a short note on “Prehistoric cultures”.

Why were the Levalloisian tools called so?

What was the main factor for the development of early civilisations?

Answer all the questions given under caption.

Mesolithic culture.

1. Mention the evidence for the existence of Mesolithic hunt-gatherers.
2. What type of artifacts were used by the people of this period?
3. What are the tool types used by them?
4. What did they do for their subsistence?

Domestication of Animals and plants. A milestone in Human History. Explain.

______ times were mostly egalitarian in nature.