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1. State whether the following statements are true or false and rewrite the in
statements to correct them.
1. Herodotus is regarded as the 'father of history'.
2. Arthashastra and Indica are the two great epics of ancient India.
3. Inscriptions are handwritten accounts of the ancient times on metal plates.
4. Faxian was a traveller who wrote an account of his visit to India.
5. Secular literature includes the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
I. Answer the following questions in one sentence. E
1. What is the difference between history and prehistory?
2. What is the role of a historian or an archaeologist in the study of history?
3. Why are inscriptions important to us?
4. How are manuscripts different from inscriptions?
5. What are chronicles?​

Answer 1

1.1.True

2.False

3.True

Answer 2

The answers are:

• True. Herodotus was the first person to collect data and place them systematically.
• True. Arthashaastra and Indica tell us about the social, political and economic conditions about ancient India.
• True. Inscriptions provide a lot of information about the history of various empires.
• True. Faxian was a Chinese Buddhist monk and translator.
• False. Secular literature means something about worldly things and not religious beliefs.

• Prehistory refers to the events that occurred when there were no written records of them, while history refers to the events when they were recorded down.
• Archaeologists and Historians locate places that may have experienced some historic events and they study about it in detail.
• Inscriptions provide information about the events that happened during a particular time.
• Manuscripts are handwritten documents while inscriptions are writing on stone or on metals.
• Chronicles refers to a sequence of chronological events that happened in a time line.