C. Answer the following questions in brief.
1. How does the study of the monuments help the historians?
2. The study of history help us to make the present world a better place to live in. How?
3. How do skeletal studies help us to identify gender differences?
4. What are the literary sources of Indian history?
5. Explain historical literature with an example.
Answers
Answer:
The study of the monuments helps the historians to write the history of the past kings, rulers and emperors who have ruled the kingdom
Answer:
1.
The study of the monuments helps the historians to write the history of the past kings, rulers and emperors who have ruled the kingdom.
2.
The study of history motivates us to make the present world a better place to live in. Yes it helps us because we are well known of past difficulties and now when we are living in present we are doing everything keeping in mind the difficulties we have faced before.
3.
The biological sex of an adult skeleton can be determined with 95% accuracy by measuring the hip bones alone, 83% accuracy by the skull, and 80% accuracy by the long bones (femur & tibia). Women know all about being 'born in the wrong body'.
4.
Literary and Archaeological records are the two main categories that give evidences of Ancient Indian History. The literary source includes literature of Vedic, Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, and other literature along with other foreign accounts.
5.
Historical fiction is defined as movies and novels in which a story is made up but is set in the past and sometimes borrows true characteristics of the time period in which it is set. A novel that makes up a story about a Civil War battle that really happened is an example of historical fiction.