Exercise Question Answers for Chapter 2 Reshaping India’s Political Map for Class VIII in subject social Science ********************************* Questions and activities: 1. Compare the political strategies of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals. What similarities and differences existed between them? Answer: Similarities: Both aimed to control a large part of India. Both used strong armies and weapons to conquer. Taxes from people and trade were their main income. Built forts, palaces, and mosques/temples. Faced resistance from local rulers. Differences: Delhi Sultans mostly ruled through force and raids. Mughal rulers, especially Akbar, used alliances, marriages, and tolerance. Mughals built a better administration (mansabdari system). Delhi Sultans shifted capitals and had frequent violent successions. Mughals stayed in power longer because of better planning. 2. Why did kingdoms like the Vijayanagara Empire and the Ahom Kin...
PEOPLE AS A RESOURCE CLASS-9 (GEOGRAPHY) EXERCISE QUESTIONS ******************************************** Q1. What do you understand by 'people as a resource'? Answer: People as a resource is a way of reference to a country's working people in terms of their existing productive skills and abilities. Q 2. How is human resource different from other resources like land and physical capital? Answer: Human resources is different in the following ways:- 1. Land and other resources are fixed, limited and specified whereas human resources can be nurtured through education and health. 2. Human resources can bring a change in other sources whereas other sources cannot change or affect human resource. 3. Human resource can make use of land and physical capital whereas land and physical capital cannot become useful in its own. Q3. What is the role of education in human capital formation? Answer: The role of education in...