C. Answer the following questions in brief.
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?
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.
Answer the following questions.
Answers
Explanation:
1. Some of the import archaeological sources used by historians to reconstruct history has been the monuments.
2. Disease and illness in previous generations can be investigated using palaeopathology. This article describes the commonly used techniques in palaeopathology, includes examples of how such techniques are able to formulate data on a variety of health issues that occurred in the past and suggests how these data can be relevant today.
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.
The archaeological source includes epigraphic, numismatic, and other architectural remains.
The archaeological explorations and excavations have opened the great landscapes of new information.
5. Historical literature : consist of autobiographies of the ancient rulers and biographical sketches like harashacharita.