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Chapter 1New Beginnings: Cities and States

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Explore New Beginnings: Cities and States, an important Class 7 Social Science chapter, with concept-based MCQs. Improve factual recall, interpretation and understanding of people, places and society and prepare confidently for assessments.

This chapter explores the emergence of cities and states in early historical development. Students learn how settlements grew into organized political and urban centres, and understand the social, economic, and administrative changes associated with new beginnings in state formation.

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01 Social Science

Let us recall that in the early 2nd millennium BCE (that is, over a few centuries after 2000 BCE), the Indus / Ha rappan / Sindhu-Sarasvatī civilisation, which we called States, disintegrated.

A True

B False

02 Social Science

Assertion: Trade encouraged the growth of towns and cities. Reason: Exchange of goods attracted people, markets, and routes.

A Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason correctly explains Assertion

B Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason does not correctly explain Assertion

C Assertion is true but Reason is false

D Assertion is false but Reason is true

03 Social Science

According to the chapter, complete the statement: ______ the quotation at the start of the chapter and discuss in several groups.

A Cities

B New Beginnings

C Consider

D States

04 Social Science

Which option correctly fills the blank? ______ your observations and conclusions on what Kau?ilya recommends for a kingdom.

A States

B Compare

C New Beginnings

D Cities

05 Social Science

Cities is meant by ‘Second Urbanisation of India’?

A True

B False

06 Social Science

Which option correctly fills the blank? In the eastern region, major cities emerged, such as ?hi?hupalgarh (today ______, part of Bhubaneswar), which was the capital of the Kalinga region and followed a strict square ground plan, with imposing fortifications and broad streets.

A Cities

B Sisupalgarh

C New Beginnings

D States

07 Social Science

Select the best answer to complete the statement: ______ how many of the mahājanapadas are concentrated in the Ganga plains.

A New Beginnings

B Cities

C States

D Notice

08 Social Science

Which option correctly completes the idea below? ______ this map with the map of the regions mentioned in the Mahābhārata (see Fig.

A New Beginnings

B Compare

C Cities

D States

09 Social Science

Assertion: Archaeological and historical evidence help us study old cities and states. Reason: Material remains and texts give clues about past life and power.

A Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason correctly explains Assertion

B Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason does not correctly explain Assertion

C Assertion is true but Reason is false

D Assertion is false but Reason is true

10 Social Science

Fill in the blank: In an ideal society, all those groups would ______ each other and work in harmony.

A complement

B frontiers

C fortifying

D capital

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