Question

7. Imagine you are a historian who is trying to decode an old manuscript that
describes the achievements of a king.
(4 marks)
What are some of the challenges you might face while decoding the information?
Do you think all the information found on the manuscript is reliable? Why or why
not? Answer in about 70-80 words.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1) The historians face several difficulties in using manuscripts. There was no printing press in those days so scribes copied manuscripts by hand. Manuscript copying is not an easy job. As scribes copied manuscripts, they also introduced small changes—a word here, a sentence there. These small differences grew over centuries of copying until manuscripts of the same text became substantially different from one another. This is a serious problem because we rarely find the original manuscript of the author today. As a result historians have to read different manuscript versions of the same text to guess what the author had originally written.  

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