WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why do historians have to be careful using accounts written by journalists?
A
They could be exaggerated
B
They could be one sided
C
They could twist the evidence
D
All of the options
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Historians collect and evaluate information from many primary sources to answer questions about historical events, a process known as the historical method. They may analyze written records, physical artifacts, and other types of evidence during the course of their investigations.

Detailed explanation-2: -This is a serious problem because we rarely find the original manuscript of the author today. We are totally dependent upon the copies made by later scribes. As a result historians have to read different manuscript versions of the same text to guess what the author had originally written.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: 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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Persian wheel in irrigation. Spinning wheel. Fire-arms in combat. 02-Oct-2019

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