Why is it important to compare foreign travellers' accounts with other sources?
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Correct answer: To verify information and understand limitations
A traveller’s account can provide observations unavailable in local records, but it may reflect the writer’s purpose, language, cultural assumptions, access to information, or misunderstanding. Comparing it with inscriptions, coins, archaeology, and indigenous texts helps confirm details and identify exaggerations or omissions. This method strengthens historical reasoning; it does not remove evidence or turn history into imagination.
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What is the correct answer to this question?
To verify information and understand limitations
Why is this the correct answer?
A traveller’s account can provide observations unavailable in local records, but it may reflect the writer’s purpose, language, cultural assumptions, access to information, or misunderstanding. Comparing it with inscriptions, coins, archaeology, and indigenous texts helps confirm details and identify exaggerations or omissions. This method strengthens historical reasoning; it does not remove evidence or turn history into imagination.
Which subject and chapter does this question cover?
This is a Class 11 History question. Chapter: Writing and City Life. Topic: Development and uses of writing.
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