CBSE Class 7 Geography Tribes Nomads And Settled Communities Worksheet

His Tribes Nomads And Settled Communities

1.The Gonds lived in a vast forested region called ___________.

(A) Gondwana (B) Koyas (C) Berads (D) Vetars

2.What was the basis of division of a society in the larger parts of the subcontinent?

(A) Rules of Varna (B) Rules of Shudras (C) Rules of God (D) None of them

3.What did a tribal group do?

(A) Controlled land and pastures and divided those amongst households according to its own rules.

(B) Fight with each other

(C) Dance together

(D) All of them

4.Which tribe was very influential during the 13th and the 14th century in Punjab?

(A) Gakkhars (B) Gonds (C) Khokhars (D) Langahs

5.Who was the chief of Gakkhar tribe?

(A) Qutbuddin Aybak (B) Kamal Khan Gakkhar (C) Kamal Hassan (D) Asoka

6.The tribe of Balochis belonged to ___________.

(A) South East (B) North East (C) South West (D) North West

7.What adjective has been used for the Gaddis tribe in the chapter?

(A) Lazy (B) Energetic (C) Weak (D) Shepherd

8.Who was Akbar's famous general?

(A) Raja Rammohan Roy (B) Raja Man Singh (C) Rajarajadeva (D) Rajarajeshvaram

9.Match the following from the code given below-:

Column A                                                         Column B

A. Clan                                     (i) Clearing of one piece of land and sowing seeds on another land.

B. Nomads                               (ii) Wandering People

C. Shifting Cultivation              (iii) Group of families claiming descent from a common ancestor.

(A) A(iii),B(ii),C(i)       B) A(i),B(ii),C(iii)      C) A(ii),B(iii),C(ii)     D) None of them

10.Which tribe has followed Islamism?

(A) Tribes of Punjab (B) Tribes of Sind (C) Tribes of North West Frontier (D) All of them

11.According to the Akbar Nama, how many villages did the Gond kingdom have?

(A) 10,000 (B) 20,000 (C) 50,000 (D) 70,000

12.The Gond Kingdom was divided into ________.

(A) Garhs (B) Chaurasi (C) Barhots (D) Villages

13.Fill in the blank-:

GarhChaurasi ________
(A)Houses (B)Barhots (C)Villages (D) None of them

14.How many villages made a 'chaurasi'?
(A) 82 (B) 83 (C) 84 (D) 85

15.Who received land grants from the Gond Rajas?
(A) Brahmans (B) Kshatriyas (C) Shudras (D) Vaishyas

16.Who was Aman Das?
(A) Gond guard of Garha Katanga (B) Gond Raja of Garha Katanga
(C) Gond cook of Garha Katanga (D) None of them

17.Match of the following according to the code given below -:
Column A                    Column B
A. Dalpat               (i) Wife of Dalpat
B. Durgawati          (ii) Captain of Mughal Force
C.BirNarain            (iii) Son of Aman Das
D.Asaf Khan           (iv) Son of Dalpat
(A) A(iii),B(i),C(iv),D(ii) (B) A(ii),B(i),C(iii),D(iv)
(C) A(i),B(ii),C(iii),D(iv) (D) None of them

18.When was Garha Katanga attacked?
(A) 1545 (B) 1555 (C) 1565 (D) 1575

19.Who was Chandra Shah?
(A) Uncle of Bir Narain (B) Husband of Durgawati
(C) Son of Dalpat (D) Brother of Bir Narain

20.What is the meaning of 'bhuiyans'?
(A) Tenants (B) Landlords (C) Nomads (D) Rulers

21.On whom did the Ahom state depend?
(A) Forced labour (B) Weak labour (C) Lazy labour (D) All of them

22.Who were 'paiks'?
(A) People allowed to rest. (B) People of higher class.
(C) Artisans and craftsmen (D) People forced to work for a state.

23.Ahom society was divided into ________.
(A) villages (B) animals (C) khels (D) All of them

24.What was available in the Ahom society?
(A) Poets and Scholars (B) Theatre People
(C) Translators of Sanskrit to local language (D) All of them

25.Which sub-division of Gujjara participated in tripartite struggle?

26.Name of Gujarat was derived from where?

27.Which countries were inhabited by Ahoms in the beginning?

28.Which languages are related with Gondi languages?

29.In which state Kutiya Kond tribes are living?
(A) Karnataka (B) Orissa (C) Kashmir (D) Manipur

30.Match the following
Tribes Their locations
(a) Maravars     (i) Tamil Nadu
(b) Kolis           (ii) Karnataka
(c) Vetars         (iii) Kerala
(d) Ahoms        (iv) Assam
(A) A- (i). B-(ii), C - (iii) , D- (iv) (B) A-(ii), B-(i), C-(iii), D-(iv)
(C) A-(ii), B-(iii), C-(iv), D-(i) (D) A-(iv), B-(iii), C-(i), D-(ii)

31.Peter Mundy, an English trader, visited India during wich of the following century?
(A) Seventeenth century (B) Sixteenth century
(C) Eighteenth century (D) nineteenth century

32.Which of the following uler used Banjara tribes to carry grains?
(A) Sultan Alauddin Khalji (B) Akbar (C) Jahangir (D) Shahjahan

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33.What do you understand by the term' Rajput'?

34.When and from where Sakas and Kushanas came to India?

35.What was the claim of Pratiharas about themselves?

36.Who were Chandelas?

37.Who were 'Kayasthas'?

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38.Give the list of chief Nomadic tribes which invaded India during the Gupta period.

39.Who were 'Ahoms'?

40.Why did pastoral nomadism decline in South India after Harsha's reign?

41.What kinds of exchanges took place between nomadic pastoralists and settled agriculturalists?

42.What does 'Nomad" mean?

43.Write a noteon Pratiharas.

44.What were the four divisions of the society during the Vedic period?

45.Mention the classes described by Megasthenes?

46.Who is considered as one of the builders of the Ahom states and how?

47.Give the characteristic features of India in early ages?

48.Describe briefly the origin of Rajput.

49.What were features of the society of Chola period?

50.What were the rules of castism in India?

51.How foreigners assimilated into the Indian society?

52.Give some details of Sukapha administrative steps?

53.Describe 'Gondwana'.

54.What changes took place in Varna based society? (any 4)

55.How was the administration of the Ahom state organized?

56.How did tribal society change after begging organized into a state?

57.In what ways the history of Ghonds different from that of the Ahom.