Prelims High-Yield Explanations & Traps

• DATES
• 2000 years after the birth of Christ

Essential Definitions & Formulas

This

a map of South Asia (including the present countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka) and the neighbouring countries of Afghanistan, Iran, China and Myanmar.

South Asia is often called a subcontinent because although it

smaller than a continent, it is very large, and is separated from the rest of Asia by seas, hills and mountains.

One

to search for and read books that were written long ago.

When we read what

written, or speak, we use a language.

In what way s

the coin different from the ones we use today? Archaeologists also look for bones — of animals, birds, and fish — to find out what people ate in the past.

Do you think cloth

found frequently by archaeologists? Historians, that is, scholars who study the past, often use the word source to refer to the information found from manuscripts, inscriptions and archaeology.

Sometimes CE

used instead of AD and BCE instead of BC.

We use these terms because the Christian Era

now used in most countries of the world.

Rosetta

a town on the north coast of Egypt, and here an inscribed stone was found, which contained inscriptions in three different languages and scripts (Greek, and two forms of Egyptian).

That

why those who hunted them had to follow their movements.

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