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UPSC CDS Indian History Timeline — practice questions — page 22

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The famous skull found by quarrymen in August 1856 came from which valley?Read the answer and worked solution →Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published on 24 November of which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Primates, the category of mammals including apes and humans, emerged about how many million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Walking on two feet is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The earliest hominid fossils, of the genus Australopithecus, were found in:Read the answer and worked solution →The name Australopithecus combines Latin austral, southern, with Greek pithekos, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →Mary and Louis Leakey worked for over 40 years at which East African site?Read the answer and worked solution →Fossilised hominid footprints giving evidence of bipedalism 3.6 mya were found at:Read the answer and worked solution →Around how many million years ago did an Ice Age expand grasslands and favour the genus Homo?Read the answer and worked solution →Homo habilis means:Read the answer and worked solution →Fossils of Homo habilis were found at Olduvai Gorge and at Omo in:Read the answer and worked solution →Modjokerto and Sangiran, sites of Homo erectus fossils, are in:Read the answer and worked solution →Fossils named Homo heidelbergensis take their name from a city in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Neanderthals occupied Europe and western and Central Asia from roughly 130,000 to:Read the answer and worked solution →The model holding that modern humans arose in a single region, Africa, and replaced older forms is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The earliest clear evidence for planned hunting of large mammals, 500,000 years ago, comes from Boxgrove in:Read the answer and worked solution →Thousands of flake tools and hand axes dated 700,000 to 500,000 years ago were found at Kilombe and Olorgesailie in:Read the answer and worked solution →Dolni Vestonice, a site of planned hunting near a river, is in the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Homo speciesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the African fossil sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the discovery datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the early human wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Australopithecus or HomoRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the food waysRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Early humans bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in:Read the answer and worked solution →Gandhi's 1917 satyagraha in Champaran, Bihar, was to inspire which group against the plantation system?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1918 Gandhi organised a satyagraha among cotton mill workers in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Rowlatt Act of 1919 allowed detention of political prisoners without trial for:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The famous skull found by quarrymen in August 1856 came from which valley?

  1. Danube
  2. Seine
  3. Neander
  4. Loire
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Correct answer: C. Neander

1. It lies near the German city of Dusseldorf. 2. The Neander valley gave the Neanderthal skull. 3. Carl Fuhlrott recognised it was not modern. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 1, From the Beginning of Time._

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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published on 24 November of which year?

  1. 1856
  2. 1869
  3. 1849
  4. 1859
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Correct answer: D. 1859

1. All 1,250 first copies sold out the same day. 2. It appeared in 1859. 3. Darwin argued humans evolved from animals. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 1, From the Beginning of Time._

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Primates, the category of mammals including apes and humans, emerged about how many million years ago?

  1. 36
  2. 24
  3. 5.6
  4. 2.5
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Correct answer: A. 36

1. Hominoids appeared by about 24 mya. 2. Primates emerged about 36 mya. 3. Hominids came about 5.6 mya. _Source: syllabus Themes in World History, Theme 1, From the Beginning of Time._

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