Answer the following questions in one or two sentences.
(a) What is prehistory?
(b) What are the main sources of history?
(c) What are monuments?
(d) What information do we get from coins?
(e) What do you understand by oral history?
Answers
→Prehistory, the vast period of time before written records or human documentation, includes the Neolithic Revolution, Neanderthals and Denisovans, Stonehenge, the Ice Age and more.
→Historical sources include documents, artifacts, archaeological sites, features. oral transmissions, stone inscriptions, paintings, recorded sounds, images (photographs, motion pictures), and oral history. Even ancient relics and ruins, broadly speaking, are historical sources.
→They are ancient or most royal aspect kept on display for viewers and archaeologist use to visit such monument to increase their knowledge on the ancient work.
→ coins help us to know about the ruler and the extent of the ruler. 2.} metals used in the coins tells us the economic condition of a particular empire.
→Oral histories. Oral histories are accounts given by a person of events earlier in their life. Often, they are taken by family members, historians, archivists, or others who interview older people in an attempt to document events and lives that might otherwise be forgotten.