10. Walls tell stories.pptx

Class 5 EVS Ln - 10 Walls tell stories.
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2. Where is Golconda? Golconda is in Hyderabad.

3. Why Golconda is famous? Golconda was a trade centre of large diamonds called Golconda diamonds. This region has produced some of the world's most famous diamonds, including the colourless  Koh-i-Noor

4. Who lived in Golconda fort? This fort was made out of mud in 1200 and different rulers lived here. Qutubshahi Sultans ruled here one after another from 1518 – 1687. Also people like farmers and workers must also have been living here.

5. What can we find inside Golconda fort? The fort is so huge. It has thick walls and huge gates.

6. BASTIONS OR BURJ Some walls are round in shape. Those are called as Bastions. There are 87 bastions for security.

7. Bastions are made in fort wall for security. There are big holes in Bastions because soldiers will be armed there.

8. Bastions are made in curved manner so that soldiers can peep through its holes safely and can have a better view point which is not possible in case of a straight flat wall.

9. Golconda fort also has gardens, factories and fields.

10. Even in those days buildings have 2 floors

11. Large windows, doors and ventilators would have been for air and light.

12. There are beautiful carvings on the wall.

13. Chisel and Hammer are the tools used to carve the walls and statues.

14. Darwaza means door. In Golconda fort, there are, Bodli Darwaza Banjara Darwaza Bamni Darwaza Fateh Darwaza and so on There are totally 9 Darwazas. Elephants passing Darwaza

15. Hauz means water tank (Lake) and Baoli means stepwells. In Golconda fort there are 3 Hauz and 5 Baoli Katora Hauz

16. There is also a fountain on roof. This fountains would have run through the water supplied by large tanks.

17. Water system To pull water out from the well, farmers invented a mechanical device called ‘Rahat’.  In a ‘Rahat’, oxen (in some areas a camel) dragged a long wooden log, which rotated two iron wheels.

18. Water system- Rehat When the big iron wheel was rotated, one end of the string carried empty buckets in the well where they were filled with water automatically.

19. Cannon means gun In Golconda fort there is a big cannon used by Aurangzeb. Sultans were the ruler of the Golconda fort. Aurangazeb came to attack the fort. The cannon was used to attack the Golconda fort. But they could not even enter the fort.

20. Why these attacks? In those days, Emperors and kings tried to make smaller kingdoms, a part of their own kingdom This was done by friendship, flattery, marriage between families or by attacks.

21. Golconda Fort’s security In Golconda fort there is a long deep ditch along the wall. Also there are many soldiers in 87 Bastions. So it was very difficult for Aurangzeb’s army to get into the fort. For 8 months they camped outside tge fort. DITCH FOR PROTECTION

22. Mehrab(arch) Mehrab is a place where soldiers stayed.

23. Map Of Golconda

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