Q1. List some of the technological changes associated with the medieval history.
•Q2. What difficulties do historians face in using manuscripts?
•Q3. How do historians divide the past into periods?
•Q4. What types of sources are available to the historians for the study of the past?
•Q5. Who were Rajputs?
•Q6. In what ways has the meaning of the term ‘Hindustan’ changed over the centuries?
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Answer:
Q.1 :
- Use of Persian wheel in irrigation.
- Spinning wheel in weaving.
- Firearms in combats.
- New food like potatoes,tea,coffee corn,chilies etc
Q.2 :
The historians face several difficulties in using manuscripts. There was no printing press in those days so scribes copied manuscripts by hand. Manuscript copying is not an easy job. As scribes copied manuscripts, they also introduced small changes—a word here, a sentence there.
Q.3 :
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.
Q.4 :
A primary source is something written or created by a person who saw a historical event. Letters, diaries, speeches, and photographs are examples of primary sources. Artifacts such as tools are also primary sources. Other tools that historians use are secondary sources.
Q.5 :
Rajput, (from Sanskrit raja-putra, “son of a king”), any of about 12 million landowners organized in patrilineal clans and located mainly in central and northern India. They are especially numerous in the historic region of Rajputana (“Land of the Rajputs”) that also included portions of present-day eastern Pakistan.
Q.6 :
In the thirteenth century the term "Hindustan" meant the areas of Punjab, Haryana and the lands between the Ganga and Yamuna. The term was used in the political sense for lands that were a part of the dominions of the Delhi Sultan.