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History is an account of man’s achievements during the last five thousand years. Though man has been on this planet for about 500,000 years, history only covers a part of this period. The reason for this is that history is essentially based on written documents However the art of writing become known to man, only after 3000 B. C.
1.1 History : Meaning and Importance
The word ’history’ is derived from the Greek noun ’historia’ meaning ’inquiry or research.’ Aristotle regarded it as a "systematic account of a set of natural phenomena, whether or not chronological ordering was a factor in the account." The term "history" has now come to be applied to accounts of events that are narrated in a chronological order, and deal with the past of mankind.
Learning by inquiry about the past of mankind was later developed into a discipline by the Greek historians Thucydides and Heredeotus (who is popularly known as ’Father of History’). E. H. Carn defined history as an "unending dialogue between the present and the past." Jawaharlal Nehru observed that man’s growth from barbarism to civilization is supposed t
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According to W. Geographers say that there was indeed a thousand-mile long land bridge stretching between Siberia and Alaska. Three centuries after the Arab invasion, the Turks established their power in India.
Distinctive Egyptian architecture emerged during the period 4000-30 BC. The Rajputs played an important role in North India, until the Muslim invasion. The earliest of these civilizations was that of the ’Olmecs. For instance, the reindeer, lemmings etc.
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