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How do historians reconstruct the lives of ordinary people?



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Ordinary people could not leave behind any historical evidence about their life. Hence, the historians use a variety of sources to reconstruct the lives of the common people during the ancient times. The important sources are:

  • Remains of houses and pottery give an idea of the life of common men.
  • Some inscriptions and scriptures talk about the relation between monarchs and the subject. It talks about taxes and happiness and unhappiness of the common men.
  • Changing tools of craftsmen and farmers talk about the lifestyle the people.
  • Historians also depend upon folklores to reconstruct the lives of the people during the ancient times.

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