The document discusses different types of sources that help historians understand history. Material sources include artifacts from the past that can provide information about ancient life. Written sources consist of inscriptions and literature from various periods. Oral sources are folk songs and tales passed down through generations without being written. Together, material, written, and oral sources help historians reconstruct events and understand different historical periods.

2.  A number of objects used by our ancestors still
exits.
 Some inscriptions from the past have been
recovered. Sources like these help us to
understand our history.
 History can also be learned through customs and
traditions, folk arts, folk literature as well as
historical documents
 All these are known as sources of history.

3. MATERIAL
SOURCES
WRITTEN
SOURCES
ORAL
SOURCES

4.  Man uses a variety of things in his day today life
they are known as artefacts.
 Artefacts used by humans in the past provide us
valuable information about life in the ancient
times.
 We can decide the period of ancient atrefacts
like earthern pots by studying the shape color
and designs on ancient potsherds.

5.  We get information about the diet of the
people from the remains of food grains, seeds,
and bones of animals found in excavations.
 Also we find the remains of the houses and
buildings build in different historical periods.
 All such artefacts, articles, monuments or their
ruins are called the material sources of history.

8.  The stone age people have recorded many events
and expressed their emotions in paintings on rocks.
 In the beginning man wrote on potsherds, unbaked
bricks using pointed objects.
 He also used birch (bhurja) tree bark to write on.
 Many rulers had their orders, judicial decisions,
donations etc inscribed on stone or copper plates.

9.  Over a period of time, many forms of literature
developed.
 They included books on religious and social
subjects plays, poetry, travelogues and scientific
works.
 All this literature help us to understand the history
of various historical periods.
 These sources are known as written sources of
history.

10.  Owis, folk songs, folk tales and similar
literature is passed on from generation to
generation by word of mouth.
 This literature is not in the written form, its
authors are unknown.
 This type of literature preserved by oral
tradition forms the oral sources of history.

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12. Q1) History can also be learnt through
a) customs and tradition
b) laboratory
c) structure
d) grinding

15. Q2) Man uses a variety of things in his day- to-day
life they are known as
a) artefacts
b) literature
c) folk arts
d) historical documents

18. Q3) information about the diet of the people from
the remains of food grains, seeds and bones of
animals are found in
a) excavations
b) caves
c) jungle
d) monuments

21. Q4) Artefacts, articles, monuments or their ruins
are called
a) material sources of history
b) oral sources
c) written sources
d) excavations

24. Q5) The stone age people have recorded many
events and expressed their emotion in paintings
on
a) rocks
b) coins
c) trees
d) metal objects

27. Q6) In the beginning man wrote on
a) potsherds
b) trees
c) coins
d) monuments

30. Q7) Many rulers had their orders, judicial decisions
inscribed on stone or
a) copper plates
b) trees
c) caves
d) monuments

33. Q8) Over a period of time many forms of ……….
Developed
a) literature
b) rocks
c) caves
d) excavations

36. Q9) Literature help us to understand the history
of various
a) historical periods
b) rocks
c) caves
d) coins

39. Q10) Folk songs, folk tales are known as
a) oral sources of history
b) written sources history
c) excavations
d) material sources of history