1. Why do you think ordinary men and women did not generally keep records of what they did?
2. Describe at least two ways in which you think the lives of kings would have been different from those of farmers.
Answers
Explanation:
A farmer has to work in the field while a ruler does not need to do so. A king’s main responsibility was to protect its subjects, while a farmer’s main responsibility was to produce food grains. A farmer’s life must have been full of hardships. A king’s life may have been more comfortable.
Answer:
1. Ordinary people did not keep record of what they did as that work was done by many other people like them and there wouldn't be any point of writing about it if it's so common. And they also didn't have things to write on, like manuscripts because they cannot afford it. And also many of the normal people didn't know how to write.
2. Life of a king was full of things for his comfort and didn't have to do much labour but the normal farmer had to do labour and then earn and eat and don't usually had much resources.
In a life of king, he had much risk of dying which a normal farmer didn't have .
King had to conquer other lands but the farmer just had to maintain his land for agriculture.