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Look at the areas in the interior of the subcontinent on the Map. Are they as detailed as those on the coast? Follow the course of the river Ganga and see how it is shown. Why do you think there is a difference in the level of detail and accuracy between the coastal and inland areas in this map?

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Important Questions on Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years

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Social Science Our Pasts-II Textbook of History for Class VII>Chapter 1 - Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years>Exercise 1

Look at the areas in the interior of the subcontinent on the Map. Are they as detailed as those on the coast? Follow the course of the river Ganga and see how it is shown. Why do you think there is a difference in the level of detail and accuracy between the coastal and inland areas in this map?

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Social Science Our Pasts-II Textbook of History for Class VII>Chapter 1 - Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years>Exercise 2
How does the context of the word 'Jana' change in different aspects?  
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Social Science Our Pasts-II Textbook of History for Class VII>Chapter 1 - Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years>Exercise 3
When was paper more expensive and easily available – in the thirteenth or the fourteenth century?
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Social Science Our Pasts-II Textbook of History for Class VII>Chapter 1 - Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years>Exercise 4
Why do you think rulers of early Medieval India made claims of owning a vast empire?
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Social Science Our Pasts-II Textbook of History for Class VII>Chapter 1 - Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years>Exercise 5

Read the Paragraph and answer the following questions: 

In 1318, the poet Amir Khusrau noted that there was a different language in every region of India:

Sindhi, Lahori, Kashmiri, Dvarsamudri (in southern Karnataka), Telangani (in Andhra Pradesh), Gujari (in Gujarat), Ma‘bari (in Tamil Nadu), Gauri, (in Bengal), Awadhi (in eastern Uttar Pradesh) and Hindawi (in the area around Delhi).  Amir Khusrau went on to explain that in contrast to these languages there was Sanskrit which did not belong to any region. It was an old language and “common people do not know it, only the Brahmanas do”.

(a) Read the languages mentioned by Amir Khusrau. Compare them with the names of languages spoken today in the regions he mentioned.

(b) Have the names in which languages are spoken changed over time? 

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Social Science Our Pasts-II Textbook of History for Class VII>Chapter 1 - Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years>Let’s recall>Q 5
In what ways has the meaning of the term "Hindustan" changed over the centuries?
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Social Science Our Pasts-II Textbook of History for Class VII>Chapter 1 - Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years>Let’s understand>Q 6
How were the affairs of jatis regulated?
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Social Science Our Pasts-II Textbook of History for Class VII>Chapter 1 - Tracing Changes Through a Thousand Years>Let’s discuss>Q 9
How do historians divide the past into different periods? Do they face any problems in doing so?