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4 India Over the Ages
Take off 2. The rule of Gupta dynasty is also known as the
• History is the study of the past. Golden Age of India.
• People who study history and write about it are 3. Indo-Aryans or Vedic civilization used iron.
called historians. 4. The famous emperor of the Vijayanagara
Empire was Krishnadevaraya.
5. During the medieval period, the Turks invaded
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several parts of India and established their
Qutub Minar, Delhi rule. Several powerful dynasties ruled over
India. The Delhi Sultanate was established by
Find out Qutb-ud-Din Aibak. The powerful dynasties
Valmiki that ruled during this time are the Tughlaq
Dynasty, the Sayyid dynasty and the Lodhi
Do it yourself dynasty. The Lodis were deposed by Babur
1. The pictures shows Rashtrapati Bhavan. who established Mughal rule in India. Several
great monarchs, such as Akbar, Shah Jahan
2. It is located in Delhi.
and Aurangzeb ruled Delhi during this period.
3. It was built by the British. In the south, Krishnadevaraya was a famous
ruler of the Vijayanagara Empire. Several
Workout monuments near Hampi in Karnataka were
A 1. a. 2. c. 3. b. 4. b. 5. a. built during the Vijayanagara Empire and now
they serve as the source of information about
B 1. Akbar 2. Babur 3.Indo- the architecture of this empire. Some of the
Aryans famous monuments built during this period
4. East India Company are the famous Taj Mahal, the Red Fort, the
C 1. T 2. T 3. T 4. T Shalimar Gardens, the Jama Masjid, Fatehpur
Sikri and the Buland Darwaza amongst
D 1. Fatehpur Sikri was built during the Mughal era many others.
by emperor Akbar. 6. After the Indus Valley Civilization declined,
a new group of people came to India from
Central Asia during 1500 BCE. They were
called the Aryans. Their religion was later
known as Hinduism and they spoke Sanskrit.
They learnt the use of iron and began to
make tools. They domesticated the horse.
We can learn about the Aryans from the
four Vedas and epics like the Ramayana and
Mahabharata. The Bhagwad Gita, which is
the most sacred text of the Hindus, is part of
the Mahabharata.
7. The British built many historical monuments
in India. Some of them are the Victoria
Memorial, the Gateway of India, Fort St
George, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and
the monuments that surround Lutyens Delhi
like India Gate and the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Think
1. Lion Capital of Ashoka
2. India
3. Currency notes/Indian rupee
