Evidence

Question 1

What is archaeological evidence? Provide examples:

What does this help us to understand?

Answer 1

Material remains from the past.
Buildings, monuments, temples and artifacts
Can tell us about the society; whether or not they had a government, if/who they worshipped, important figures of their time and how things were designed/decorated

Question 2

What is numismatic evidence? Provide examples: what does this hope us to understand?

Answer 2

Study of coins (can be archaeological and literary)
Coins
The inscription on a coin can tell us important dates, figures, legends, leaders and beliefs

Question 3

What is literary evidence? Provide examples: what does this help us to understand?

Answer 3

Writings
Poetry, plays, books, speeches
Personalities, society and events of the ancient world

Question 4

What is epigraphic evidence? Provide examples: what does this help us to understand?

Answer 4

Inscriptions and carvings
Inscriptions appear on; monuments, statues, buildings, tablets
Tells us what the enlarged object was, who it was for and/or why it was significant to that time period

Question 5

Give four types of evidence used by historians to understand the past:

Answer 5

1. Neumasmatic
2. Epigraphical
3. Literary
4. Archaeological