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Answer the following Questions:
1. How Historians write history?
2. Name the Importance of Veda.
3. How are 'Mummies' preserved?
4. Why is the earth called 'Living Planet '?
5. What is the importance of Himalayas in India History?
6. Name the important Indian Sociologists.
7. What is Economics? Who is the Father of Economics?
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1.Historical method is the collection of techniques and guidelines that historians use to research and write histories of the past. Primary sources and other evidence including those from archaeology are used. ... The study of historical method and of different ways of writing history is known as historiography.

2.The Vedas are a collection of hymns and other ancient religious texts written in India between about 1500 and 1000 BCE. It includes elements such as liturgical material as well as mythological accounts, poems, prayers, and formulas considered to be sacred by the Vedic religion.

3.The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians used is called mummification. ... By chance, dry sand and air (since Egypt has almost no measurable rainfall) preserved some bodies buried in shallow pits dug into the sand.

4.Earth is called as living planet because it has water , good atmosphere , favourable climate conditions and suitable to live plants and animals also it has protective equipments like ozone layer and magnetic field and natural cycles like water cycles , nitrogen cycles, etc.

5.The Himalayas save our country from the cold and dry winds of Central Asia. It also prevents the rain-laden monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean from crossing over to Northern countries and causes heavy rainfall in Northern India. Almost all the great rivers of India have their sources in the Himalayan ranges.

6.A study of some of the major thinkers of sociology and their important theories and viewpoints.

M. N. Srinivas.

Gail Omvedt.

Andre Béteille.

G.S Ghurye.

Yogendra Singh.

Louis Dumont.

A.R Desai.

Main writings of A.R Desai.

7.Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist, philosopher, and author, and is considered the father of modern economics.