History - Concepts - Chapter 1 - Understanding Social Science - Understanding Society India and Beyond - Class 9

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38- History The human past 39- What History studies History examines the human past and how societies change over time. 40- A puzzle at the fort Fort built by the Portuguese But how do we know that? 41- Historians use sources Historians rebuild the past from sources — there are four main kinds. 42- Source 1 — Literary Anything written down Texts - manuscripts - letters 43- Source 2 — Archaeological Physical remains The fort - tools - statues 44- Source 3 — Epigraphic Inscriptions Carved on stone or metal 45- Source 4 — Numismatic The study of old coins And currency 46- Empirical evidence Testing how old things are E.g. carbon-14 dating 47- But sources are even wider A traveller's account A grandmother's oral story A ruin- scientific testing 48- Political Science Power and rules 49- What it studies Political Science studies governance, power, and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.