CHSE Odisha Class 11 History Unit 1 Early Societies Objective & Short Answer Type Questions

Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 11 History Solutions Unit 1 Early Societies Objective & Short Answer Type Questions.

CHSE Odisha 11th Class History Unit 1 Early Societies Objective & Short Answer Type Questions

Multiple Choice Questions With Answers

Question 1.
Where we found the use of glass bottles?
(a) Rome
(b) Egypt
(c) Greece
(d) Sudan
Answer:
(b) Egypt

Question 2.
Where we found the first cultivation of wheat and barley?
(a) Rome
(b) Egypt
(c) Grece
(d) Sudan
Answer:
(c) Grece

Question 3.
Where we found early agricultural settlements?
(a) Rome
(b) Egypt
(c) Baluchistan
(d) Grece
Answer:
(c) Baluchistan

Question 4.
In which year Charles Darwin’s on the origin of species was published?
(a) 24th November 1859
(b) 24th November 1858
(c) 24th November 1856
(d) 24th November 1850
Answer:
(a) 24th November 1859

Question 5.
Who made the excavations at Olduvai and Laetoli?
(a) Mary Leakey
(b) Mary
(c) Leakey
(d) None
Answer:
(a) Mary Leakey

Question 6.
The name Aulstalopithecus comes from a _______word ‘austral’ meaning southern.
(a) Latin
(b) Greek
(c) French
(d) English
Answer:
(a) Latin

Question 7.
A Greek word ‘Pilhekos’ mean:
(a) Ape
(b) Monkey
(c) Human
(d) Dogs
Answer:
(a) Ape

Question 8.
Order the early humans as fortune :
(a) Homahabilis
(b) Homeerctus
(c) Homo
(d) Australopithecus
(a) CABD
(b) ABCD
(c) ACBD
(d) ACDB
Answer:
(a) CABD

Question 9.
The earliest evidence of burials is found to be a custom _______year ago.
(a) 300,000
(b) 30,000
(c) 30,00,000
(d) 40,00,00
Answer:
(a) 300,000

Question 10.
Development of voice box:
(a) 2,000
(b) 400,000
(c) 30,00,00
(d) 200
Answer:
(b) 400,000

Question Question11.
The invention of early sewing needles _________ years ago.
(a) 21,000
(b) 20,000
(c) 30,000
(d) 22,000
Answer:
(a) 21,000

Question 12.
Early agriculture was found in Mesopotamian plains around:
(a) 7,000-6,000 BCE
(b) 7,000-8,000 BCE
(c) 3,200 BCE
(d) 32,000 BCE
Answer:
(a) 7,000-6,000 BCE

Question 13.
Mesopotamia is situated between two rivers.
(a) Euphrates and Tigres
(b) Nile and Tigres
(c) Meso and Euphrates
(d) None of the above
Answer:
(a) Euphrates and Tigres

Question 14.
Where the Hebrew language was usually spoken:
(a) Iraq
(b) Rome
(c) Greece
(d) England
Answer:
(a) Iraq

Question 15.
In which country early use of fire is found?
(a) China
(b) Italy
(c) Greece
(d) India
Answer:
(a) China

Question 16.
The first cultivation of beans goes to:
(a) Australia
(b) America
(c) China
(d) India
Answer:
(b) America

Question 17.
When earliest stone tools were found to exist?
(a) 2.6 – 2.5 mya
(b) 2.5 – 2.6 mya
(c) 2.2 mya
(d) 1.3 mya
Answer:
(a) 2.6 – 2.5 mya

Question 18.
Where Lazaret cave is situated:
(a) France
(b) Italy
(c) China
(d) Greece
Answer:
(a) France

Question 19.
The earliest fossils of Homo Erectus have been found:
(a) Africa
(b) Asia
(c) Both Africa artel Asia
(d) None
Answer:
(c) Both Africa artel Asia

Question 20.
Early humans are different from each other on the basis.
(a) Faces
(b) Places
(c) Bone structure
(d) Skulls
Answer:
(c) Bone structure

Question 21.
Homo sapiens are found in different parts of _________.
(a) Greece
(b) Africa
(c) Asia
(d) America
Answer:
(b) Africa

True And False Type Questions With Answers

Question 1.
Discoveries of human fossils, store foals, and cave paintings help us to understand early human history.
Answer:
True

Question 2.
The Olduvai Gorge was first discovered by a German butterfly collector.
Answer:
True

Question 3.
Hazards are the food collection.
Answer:
False

Question 4.
Hazards are a small group of hunters.
Answer:
True

Question 5.
The evolution of the vocal font was around 2,00,00 years ago.
Answer:
False

Question 6.
The evolution of the vocal font was around 2,00,000 years ago.
Answer:
True

Question 7.
The development of language is closely related to art.
Answer:
True

Question 8.
Altamira is a cave site in Greece.
Answer:
False

Question 9.
Altamira is a cave site in Spain.
Answer:
True

Question 10.
Animal paintings are discovered in the caves of Lascaux and Chauvet.
Answer:
True

Question 11.
Lascaux and Chauvet are in Greek.
Answer:
False

Question 12.
Lascaux and Chauvet are in France and Spain.
Answer:
True

Question 13.
Hadza is known as hunter.
Answer:
True

Question 14.
The last ice age came around about 130 years ago.
Answer:
True

Question 15.
Assyrian king acknowledged the southern region of Babylonia as the center of high culture.
Answer:
True

Question 16.
Homo habits have been discovered in Africa
Answer:
False

Question 17.
Homa habits have been discovered at Omo in Ethiopia and at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania
Answer:
True

Short-Answer Type Questions

Question 1.
Where pieces of baked clay and burnt bone were found?
Answer:
Pieces of baked clay and burnt bone along with stone tools dated between 1.4 and 1 mya have been found at Chesowanja, Kenya, and Swartkrans South Africa.

Question 2.
Describe the punch blade technique.
Answer:
The top of a large pebble is removed using a hammerstone. This produces a flat surface called the striking platform. This is then struck using a hammer and a punch, made at bone or antler. This leads to the production of blades that can be used as knives or modified to serve as chisels or burins which could be used to engrave bone, antler, ivory, or wood.

Question 3.
Who first discovered the cave painting at Atamira?
Answer:
Marcelino Sanz de saultuela a local landowner and an amateur archeologist by his daughter, Maria in November 1879 first brought painting at Altamira.

Question 4.
Who are Hominoids?
Answer:
Hominoids are different from monkeys in ways. They have a larger bodies and do not have a tail. There is a longer period of infant development and dependency among hominoids. They belong to the family of Hominoids.

Question 5.
Write the characteristics- of hominoids.
Answer:
Hominoids include a large brain size, upright posture, bipedal locomotion, and specialization of the hand.

Question 6.
What is the major difference between Australopithecus and Homo?
Answer:
They are different in brain size, jaws, and teeth. The former has a smaller brain size, heavier jaws, and larger teeth than the latter.

Question 7.
What archaeologists believed about Homos?
Answer:
They suggest that early hominoids such as Homo abilities probably consumed most of the food where they found it, slept in different places, and spent much of their time in trees.

Question 8.
Where did Hadza live?
Answer:
Hadza’s are a group of hunters and gathers living in the vicinity of lake Eyasi, a salt, rift valley lake.

Question 9.
What is ethnography?
Answer:
It is the study of contemporary either groups. It includes an examination of their modes of livelihood, technology, gender roles, rituals, political institutions, and social customs.

Question 10.
Why Mesopotamia is important to Europeans?
Answer:
Mesopotamia was important to Europeans because of references to it in the old testament. The first part of the Bible. For instance, the Book of Geneses of the old testament refers to ‘ Shimar’ meaning summer, as the land of brick built city.

Question 11.
Which story of Bible is similar to the story of the Mesopotamian tradition of Ziusudra or Uthapishtiom?
Answer:
The story of Noah who was sent by God with a huge boat to look a pair each of all species of animals and birds on board the ark and survived in the flood.

Question 12.
What are the things Mesopotamians traded?
Answer:
They could have traded their abundant textiles and agricultural produce for wood, copper, tin, silver, gold, shell, and various stores from Turkey and Iran or across the Gulf.

Question 13.
When did spoken language emerge?
Answer:
It has been suggested that the brain of Homo habilis had certain features which would have made it possible for them to speak. Thus language may have developed as early as 2 mya.

Question 14.
What are Fossils?
Answer:
Fossils are the remain or impressions of a very old plant, animal, or human which have turned into stone. These are often embedded in rock and are thus preserved for millions of years.

Question 15.
Who are primates?
Answer:
Primates are a subgroup of a larger group of mammals. They include monkeys, apes, and humans. They have body hair, a relatively long gestation period following birth, mammary, glands, different types of teeth, and the ability to maintain a constant body temperature.