Question

16.How do historians divide the past into periods?
Do they face any problems in doing so? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Historians divide the past into periods based on the economic and social factors which characterize them. In doing so they are faced with two problems. First, economic and social changes keep taking place hence definite boundaries cannot be drawn. Second, these periods are compared with modernity.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Historians divide the past into periods on the basis of economic and social factors to characterise the major elements of different moments of the past.

1) The historians faced a lot of problems, because time itself reflect changes in social and economic, Organisation,in the persistence and transformation of ideas and beliefs

2) Therefore, describing the entire period as one historical unit is not without its problems.

3)"Modernity" also carries a sense of material progress and intellectual advancement

4) The study of time is made somewhat easier by dividing the past into large segments periods which possess shared characteristics.