(v) Who were skilled gatherers?
3. Answer the following:
(i) What is history? Why do we study history?
(ii) What are 'sources'? How many sources are there?
(iii) Give two examples of inscriptions of ancient India.
(iv) Who are archaeologists? What do they do?
(V) How was travelling an important part of life of the people in the pas
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- History is the study of the past. Events occurring before the invention of writing systems are considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events
History helps us understand change and how the society we live in came to be. The second reason history is inescapable as a subject of serious study follows closely on the first. The past causes the present, and so the future.
2. Historical source is original source that contain important historical information. These sources are something that inform us about history at the most basic level, and these sources used as clues in order to study history Historical sources include documents, artifacts, archaeological sites, features.
In general, there are three types of resources or sources of information: primary, secondary, and tertiary. It is important to understand these types and to know what type is appropriate for your coursework prior to searching for information.
3. Ashokan inscriptions are found on carved rocks, caves, stones slabs, and rock pillars. We also have some examples of short Brahmi inscriptions on small seals made of ivory, bone, stone, and terracotta dated to Mauryan times. Other examples come from potsherds and copper plates.
4. Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities.Archaeologists study past human activity by excavating, dating and interpreting objects and sites of historical interest. They implement excavation projects, informally known as digs, preserve archaelogical remains and collect data that informs their understanding of the past.
5. How was traveling an important part of life of the people in the past? People in the past had to travel from one place to another for survival. Although hills and high mountains like the Himalayas, deserts, rivers and seas posed great problems, people kept on traveling. They moved in search of livelihood.
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1. The studying history is important because it allows us to understand our past which in turn allows us to understand our present. Studying history can provide us with insightinto our cultures of origin as well as cultures with which we might be less familiar, there by increaseing cross cultures awareness and understanding