Tribes Nomads and settled Communities - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT
Points To Remember:
Our ancestors faced many challenges from climate, wild animals and from other human groups
With time hunters and gatherers became cultivators and got settled, they gradually transformed from nomads to social man with social relations and rulers, this led to emergence of tribes
Livelihood depended on agriculture, hunting and gathering.
Nomads travelled place to place in search of livelihood. There were three types of nomads namely hunter gatherers, pastoral nomads and peripatetic nomads. Some pastoral nomads are Gujjars, Bhotiyas, and Gaddis etc.
Pastoralists travelled long distances to feed their cattle, banjara community were one of the important trader nomads
Needs of society and growth of new skills gave rise to new jatis
Ahom people migrated from Burma (Myanmar) in thirteen century, they created kingdom by suppressing small landlords in fifteen century. This kingdom invaded by Mughals in 1662
Society divided into clans called khels, it consisted of several villages
