An Approach Towards The Past - History

knowledge that is gained from the study of the past is called?

• History

• Civics

• Geography

• Headache

History is the study of the past.

• True

• False

The period for which written records are available is called_________.

Religious literature is a ______ source.

• Religious

• Literary

• Archaeological

• Secular

Historians have usually divided Indian history into-

• Ancient

• Medieval

• Modern

• All the above

Literary sources refer to written records that tell us about people and events of the past.

• True

• False

The autobiographies and biographies are important Literary sources of history. They are..

• religious texts

• non-religious texts

Writing on walls, caves and wooden or clay tablets are called..

• artefacts

• inscriptions

• monuments

• oral sources

Study of History tells us just about kings and dynasties

• yes

• No, it tells about ordinary people too

The period of history in which written records are available is called

• Prehistory

• History