Question

How do historians divide the past into periods? Do they face any problems in doing so?
NCERT Class 7th Social Science (Our Pasts II) Chapter 1 Tracing Changes Through A Thousand Years

Answer 1

Answer:

Historians divide the past into periods based on the economic and social factors which characterize them. In doing so they are faced with two problems. First, economic and social changes keep taking place hence definite boundaries cannot be drawn. Second, these periods are compared with modernity.