8th Class Social Science Sample Paper Social Science Sample Paper - 2

  • question_answer
    What is History? Why and how do we periodise a time in History?               

    Answer:

    (i) History is a record of significant events written in chronological order.
    (ii) It is the subject from where we find out how things were in the past and how things have changed in the past.
    (iii) We periodise a time in order to characterise it into different periods on the basis of some significant events that have happened during those days.
    (iv) These demarcations of time into different periods in the past is known as 'periodisation'/ which becomes important for history.
    (v) They help to reflect our ideas quickly about the happenings and changes from one period to the next.                                


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