Social Science : 2010 : CBSE : [Delhi] : Set II

The French Revolution was the first revolution of its kind in the world and its proclamation was “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity” for all its citizens.

Vietnam gained formal independence in 1945 before India, but it took another thirty years of fighting before the republic of Vietnam was formed.

The first printing press was developed in the year 1448 by Johann Gutenberg in Strasbourg, Germany. The first book that he printed was the Bible.

In 1836 a notable event took place when Charles Dickens’s ‘Pickwick Papers’ was serialised in a magazine. Magazines were attractive since they were illustrated and cheap.

Traditional system of rain-water harvesting in Rajasthan are the underground water tanks or “tankas”, in which they store drinking water.

Limestone is used as the main raw material in the cement industry.

Two groups into which resources are classified on the basis of their exhaustibility are:

(a) Exhaustible:   Coal

Rabi crops are sown in the month of October- November, i.e., during retreating monsoon and harvested before monsoons in April.

The rural local government is the Panchayat Raj System.

“Per capita income” is considered as most important for comparing development of countries.