Tracing Changes Through A Thousand Years — Social Studies STD 7 — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 7Social StudiesTracing Changes Through A Thousand Years3 Marks
Question
What are the difficulties historians face in using manuscripts?
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Answer
The difficulties historians face in using manuscripts:
There was no printing press in those days so scribes copied manuscripts by hand which was sometime difficult to read and understand.
As scribes copied manuscripts, they also introduced small changes – a word here, a sentence there. These small differences grew over centuries of copying.
Original manuscript of the author is rarely found today. So, they have to depend 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.
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