WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION PREHISTORY300 BC

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What kinds of evidence do historians use to study the past?
A
Letters
B
Symbols
C
Tax records
D
All of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Historians use ancient scriptures, literature, coins, artifacts and more in order to find about trade and trade routes. Historians generally use oral stories of people who lived in the ancient period and also take help of the evidences found in the ruins of a place.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. They are written after a historical event by people who did not see the event.

Detailed explanation-3: -The historians use sources like coins, inscriptions, architectures, and textual records for the study of a specific period.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: The historians use the following evidence to find out about trade and trade routes: From the literature of the period like Sangam poems and Sangam literature. From the objects like pottery, bowls and plates, found from several archaeological sites.

Detailed explanation-5: -Historians use both written sources and physical objects like old weapons, old coins, etc, to study about the past in detail, and then record their observations in a written form.

Detailed explanation-6: -Just like detectives investigate and collect evidence, archaeologists and historians find archaeological clues such as broken pots from earlier time periods, written records and manuscripts to know about the past. They use two types of clues that are the sources of history; archaeological and literary.

Detailed explanation-7: -question answer 1) What kinds of evidence do historians use to find out about trade and trade routes? Answer: The discovery of coins is one of the most dominant evidences helps hisotrians to find out the trade relation of India with outer world and India’s flourishing trade.

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