Question

1. What do you mean by the term 'time lag?
2. What is the difference between 'history' and 'prehistory'?
3. What is understood by the term 'timeline' in history? Why is it
important to have a timeline?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1) the period of time between two closely related events, phenomena, etc., as between stimulus and response or between cause and effect: a time-lag between the declaration of war and full war production.

2) Scholars define prehistory as events that occurred before the existence of written records in a given culture or society. History refers to the time period after the invention of written records in a given culture or society

3) Historians use timelines to put the events into the chronological order. Chronology is important because the exact order in which the events occur help us to understand the cause and effect of those events. Timelines explain the full picture of particular era from beginning to end.

Answer 2

Answer:

1.  a period of time between one event and another is called time lag.

2. Prehistory -  the time period before the discovery of writing is called prehistory. There are no written records for this period. Archaeology is the main source of evidence.

History- The time period after the discovery of writing is known as History. There are plenty of written records . But many of them got destroyed .

3. time line means the order of events that happened in past. It is important to have a timeline because it helps us to understand what happened in the correct order.

Hope this helps.....