History Ch1 cls7
Al-Idrisi
This map was drawn by Al-Idrisi in 1154 Ce. He was an Arab geographer.
He travelled in india from the north to south, so Srilanka is in north and india is in south
Difference in terminologies then and now
Foreigner 👥
Then: Any person from a different town, village, city, or kingdom.
Now: Any person from a different country or a continent.
Hindustan 🇮🇳
Then: In 13th-century Minhaj-i-Siraj (a chronicler) used the term Hindustan to describe the lands of Punjab, Haryana, and the lands between the Ganga, and the Yamuna. Or simply the area of the Delhi Sultanate.
Early 16th Century Babur 👊 Used the term Hindustan to describe the flora and fauna and the culture of the inhabitants of the subcontinent
Now: The term Hindustan means the whole of india
Paper was more costly in the 13th century and more easily available in the 14th century.
Historians still depend on manuscripts architecture coins etc to acquire information on histories.
Histories are stored in large libraries or archives
Scribes used to copy manuscripts while doing it they add or replace words so archaeologists have big trouble finding the original manuscript
Study of coins is called numismatic
The Persian wheel of irrigation, the spinning wheel, introduction of new foods and beverages to the subcontinent like potato corn chillies etc in the years 700 to 1750.
Ziyauddin Barani was a famous chronicler in the 14th century he wrote his first chronicle in 1356 and its second version 2 yrs later.
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