Test: The World of Growing Knowledge- 1 - Class 5 MCQ

In the absence of a formal language, early humans used sounds and gestures similar to those of animals to communicate with each other.

The earliest form of writing involved using pictures and symbols to represent words. This form of writing is known as a pictorial language.

Hieroglyphics were used as a system of writing in ancient Egypt.

Reading a book written in a pictorial language requires memorizing approximately 10,000 picture symbols.

The Sumerians were the first people to introduce the Cuneiform writing system, which involved using triangular-shaped symbols scratched on earthen slates.

The Brahmi script is the earliest script that has been deciphered among the ancient scripts of India.

The national language of India, Hindi, is written in the Devanagari script.

The scripts of the Indus Valley Civilization have not been deciphered yet, and their meaning remains unknown.

India introduced the concept of zero and the decimal system, which are fundamental to modern mathematics.

The numbers we use today are called Hindu-Arabic numerals because they were adopted by the Arabs from the Indian numerals.