I. Answer the following questions in brief:
a. Which period of history is known as Medieval Age? What is the extent of medieval period of Indian History?
b. Why maps and texts are important for historians?Which map was used by European sailors on their voyages?
c. What does the word ‘Rajput’ stand for?
d. Compare the following regarding the value of paper and justify :
i. In the middle of the 13th century a scholar wanted to copy a book. He did not have enough paper, so he washed off a writing of a manuscript he didn’t want, dried the paper and used it.
ii. Now a day, from our newspapers to paper wrappings, paper is everywhere and creates an enormous amount of waste.
Answers
Answer:
a. It may be divided into two periods: The 'early medieval period' which lasted from the 6th to the 13th century and the 'late medieval period' which lasted from the 13th to the 16th century, ending with the start of the Mughal Empire in 1526.
b.Historians use historical maps for several purposes: As tools for reconstructing the past, to the extent that maps provide records of features, landscape, cities, and places that may not exist any more or that exist in dramatically transformed form. As records of certain historical processes and relationships.
c. Rajput (from Sanskrit raja-putra, "son of a king") is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent.