The City School

Darakhshan Campus
Prep Boys Section
Revision Worksheet # 1 2016-17 (Second Term)
Subject: History Class: 7

Name: ________________________ Section: _________________ Date: _____________

The Mughal Dynasty 2

Question 1 (8 marks)
a) Name the person you can see in the picture above (hint: First British Ambassador to India) __________________
b) Name his personality traits. _____________________________________________________________
c) How long was he to stay in India? ________________________________________________________
d) What was the name of the ship in which he arrived?__________________________________________
e) Why was he specially chosen as an ambassador? _____________________________________________
f) Why, in your opinion, he did go back to his ship when the Indian officer asked to search him? Was this
justified?_____________________________________________________________________________
g) Was he able to see Noor Jehan? ___________________________________________________________

Question 2

a) Name the four sons of Shah Jehan. Who was his favorite? (4 marks)
b) In which context were the following words said by Aurangzeb in reply to his father’s letter:
‘It is your own fault’ (4 marks)
c) Why was Aurangzeb known as ‘the troubled Emperor’? (4 marks)

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Revision Worksheet # 2 2016-17 (Second Term)
Subject: History Class: 7

Name: ________________________ Section: _________________ Date: _____________

The Mughal Dynasty 2

Add the correct year for the following events: (16 marks)

1. Rulers of the three towns Sukkur, Bhakkar, Lohri asked the Portuguese to attack Thatta in
____________________.
2. Several Europeans lived in Bandar Lahri in Mughal times. The British left in________.
Portuguese stayed until___________
3. Akbar was succeeded by his son, Prince Salim in ________
4. Johannes de laet wrote his book ‘The Empire of the Great Mogol’ in_____________
5. Jehangir ordered that Kos Minars be set up at every Kos between Lahore and Agra
in__________
6. William Hawkins visited the court of Jehangir with a letter from the British King in
____________
7. Sir Thomas’s ship ‘The Lion’ arrived in _________
8. The Peacock Throne was stolen by the Persians in ______________
9. Aurangzeb planned a new port in Kukrallo in _____________
10. Mumtaz Mahal died in_______________
11. Shah Jehan died in _____________
12. Aurangzeb banned singing and dancing in the court in _______________
13. In ________________ Aurangzeb ordered the Guru to come to the court.
14. In _______________ Prince Akbar declared himself Emperor.
15. During Jehangir’s reign, in ___________, bubonic plague hit the Punjab before spreading to
other places.
16. Aurangzeb died in_____________

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Revision Worksheet # 3 2016-17 (Second Term)
Subject: History Class: 7

Name: ________________________ Section: _________________ Date: _____________

The Mughal Dynasty 2

1) Name the Emperor you can see in the picture above (he made a pathan wrestle a lion) (1)
__________________________________________________________________________________

2) What sort of a man was he? (2)

__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________

3) Describe the account written by Joannes de Laet of the emperor’s royal palace at Lahore (4)

Answer the following questions:

1) a. What makes Aurangzeb an Emperor different from that of the earlier Mughal Emperors?
b. List the changes brought by Aurengzaib as he became more religious. (4)
2) Who were the Marathas? (4)
3) Describe the extract written by an English traveler about the famine and plague in Mughal lands.(6)
4) Why did Aurangzeb fear that he might be punished for his sins after his death? Give reasons for your
answer. (6)

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Revision Worksheet # 4 2016-17 (Second Term)
Subject: History Class: 7

Name: ________________________ Section: _________________ Date: _____________

The Flowering of the Arts in Mughal Times

A) State whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false statement: (10)

1) The great age of Mughal architecture began with Nur Jehan. _________________________________________
2) Agra fort was built between 1565 and 1771._________________________________________
3) Akbar’s mausoleum at Sikandra was finished by Aurangzeb._________________________________________
4) The main enterance to the raised religious area is the huge Buland Darwaza.____________________________
5) Akbar’s library was said to have 25000books._________________________________________
6) The Pearl Mosque was finished in1684. _________________________________________
7) Jama Masjid has four gateways, four towers and two minarets. _____________________________________
8) Taj Mahal took 20000 workers and more than twenty years to build, from 1632 to 1654. __________________
9) In 1575, Akbar moved the capital from Agra to Lahore._________________________________________
10) Sheikhupura, on the outskirts of Lahore, belonged to Jehangir before he became to Emperor.______________

B) Match column A with column B and write the correct apphabet in the answer column

Column A Column B Answer

1) In 1365 Samarkand in modern-day a) at Shalimar near the Dal lake in Sirinagar. 1._____
Uzbekistan
2) Babur introduced the Persian style b) an adventure called the Hamza-Nama. 2._____
garden to
3) In 1620 Jehangir built a terraced garden c) the bank of the river Ravi 3._____

4) Shalimar garden stood on d) the subcontinent and built gardens in all 4._____
large cities in india.
5) One of Akbar’s favorite stories was e) became the capital of Timur. 5._____

C) Identify the following pictures and write their names accordingly: (5)
 The City School
Darakhshan Campus
Prep Boys Section
Revision Worksheet # 5 2016-17 (Second Term)
Subject: History Class: 7

Name: ________________________ Section: _________________ Date: _____________

The Flowering of the Arts in Mughal Times

Answer the following questions:

1. Describe the ‘khwabgah’ complex for the personal use of Emperor Akbar. (1)
2. Discuss the extract written by William Finch who visited Agra in 1610. (6)
3. Describe Tal Mahal as the most famous building in Agra (6)
4. What did Peter Mundy say about Taj Mahal? (2)
5. How did Emperor Akbar encourage painters? (4)
6. What did the Mughal artists copy from the European paintings? (2)
7. What was the condition of Lahore under Aurangzeb? (4)
8. Describe the ‘Persian wheel’ used by the Mughals. (6)