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Grade : VII : Subject : Social Science: History2023
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6. Towns Traders and craftsman

1 Key Words
(a) Administrative town (f) Masulipatam
(b) Trading Town (g) Hampi
(c) Pilgrimage Town (h) Chintz
(d) Trade Centre (i) Muslin
(e)Port Town (j) Mercantile
A. Fill in the blanks.
1. Many of the larger villages pranas and the headquarters gradually transformed
into towns know n as qasba.
2. Times in Bihar were known for class vessels and wooden articles.
3. Religious need of the people kings often build temple.
4. Hampi was the capital of the vijayanagar empire.
5. Surat was famous for trading in spices, silk, musk and procelain with
malacca, China and Sumatra.

B Match the following.

Daulatabad. - Muhammad bin Tughluq
Fatehpur Sikri - Akbar
Ahmedabad - Sultan Ahmed Shah I
Jaunpur - Firoz shah Tughluq
Surat - Port city

2 C Answer the following questions very briefly

(a) What did the towns in Bengal produce
Ans Dhaka was known for producing fine quality of muslin.
Kasim Bazar and Mursidabad in Bengal was famous trading centre for cotton
and silk textiles.
(b) Who discovered the ruins of Hampi?
Ans Colonel Colin Mackenzie.
 (c) What were guilds?
Ans Guilds or shreins were merchant organization which regulated trade activity.
(d) Where did the British established their first factory on the Coromandel coast?
Ans Masulipatam
(e) Why did Tanjore flourish into a town?
Ans Due to a number of temples built here thus it developed as a religious town.

3 D Answer the following questions briefly.

(a) Describe the role played by haats in the local trade.
Ans 1. People from the town could exchange or buy things of their daily need.
2. These haats were periodic market that were held on fixed days of a week.
Sometimes there were haats for specific goods.
3. These were important in local trade as here all good of day-to-day
requirement of the people were bought and sold.
(b) How did the Grand Trunk Road help in trade and commerce?
Ans Grand Trunk Road greatly facilitated the movement of goods and merchants
which led to the prosperity of trade.
(c) How did religious towns emerge?
Ans 1. To pacify the religious needs of the people, kings often undertook the task
of building temples.
2. The concept of taking pilgrimages to the places where religious leaders had
lived and preached also converted such towns to religious centres.
3. The dargahs of sufi saints too become important centre of pilgrimage.Rush
was seen on the birth or death anniversaries of these saints when fairs or
melas were held.
(d) What was the main factor that led to the development of trade?.
Ans 1. An important reason for a growing organisation was the attainment of
political security and prosperity which were to a rise of trade and industry.
2. The members of occupational craft groups such as weavers, carpenters,
dyers potters etc had grown significantly which led to flourishing of trade and
commerce.
3. Examples of trading towns:
Mesopotamia,Visakhapatnam,Bharuch,Surat,Goa,etc.
(e) Why did new towns develop over trade routes?
Ans 1.New towns developed over trade routes as a lot of traffic passed over
these routes and such towns catered to the various needs of the
traveling merchants- credit, housing, boarding entertainment, security
etc.
2. Trading towns developed both on land routes such as Lahore,
Masulipatam, Hampi and on ports like cambay, Sopara, broach, Surat
and Goa.
E. Answer the following questions in detail.
1. List the causes which led to the emergence of towns during
medieval times.
Ans. 1.In the mediaeval period town emerged as people started trading along
centers which were thriving hubs of the activity
2. These towns started having a well define boundary with a local
government or an institution to administer the day to day life in the
town.
3.many of the larger Villages,praganas and thana headquarters were
gradually transform into town known as qasba
4.From 4th century onwards these places becomes significant centre for
2. various crafts and mercantile and commercial transactions.
Ans.
Explain the significance of trade centres.
1.The trading centres were linked to bigger commercial centre in a
region.
2.If we take mughal provinces as region we notice that each of them
had bigger commercial centres serving as nodal centres for all the
commodities purchased in various parts of the Suba.
3.These big towns also served as administrative headquarters of the
suba.
4.Example: Patna,Ahmedabad,Delhi,Hyderabad,ect.

3. Describe how trade was carried out in the trade centres.

Ans. 1.Bulk of the production was sold in the town itself and in the nearby
town
2.most of the purchase was made by banjaras,the traditional grain
merchants they in turn carried it to other towns and market.
3.Regular markets there were haats or periodic markets where people
from the towns could exchange or buy things of their daily needs.
4.The merchants in their individual capacities took care of the
commercial activities in various localities.
5.Cities like Delhi, Agra, dacca and Lahore had separate market for
specific commodities.

4. Write a few line on the following-:

Hampi, Masulipatnam,Surat.
Ans.  Hampi was seat of famous Vijayanagar Empire it owed it's
development and growth to agriculture and industry trade and
commerce including voluminous Marintime trade with foreign
countries.
 Musulipatam was founded by the trading Arab under East coast
 during the time of satavahanas. It was known for kalamkari
textile and painting created using vegetables dyes.
 Surat was established by a Hindu trader name Mallik Gopi.
Spices silk were some of the major business.

5. Describe the mankinds of towns that came up in medieval India.

Ans. 1.Administrative or capital town: which was set up by rulers and

nobles.
2. Trading towns: which came of when people pursuing a specific
occupation started living together in a particular.
3.Manufacturing towns: which came up as manufacturing units.
4.Religious town: which came around temples and places of
pilgrimage.
5. Port town :which came up around port centres.