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The (shehnai, pungi) was a ‘reeded noisemaker.’

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  • The Roman Empire covered a vast stretch of territory that included most of Europe as we know it today and a large part o f the Fertile Crescent and North Africa. The Roman empire embraced a wealth of local cultures and languages, that women had a stronger legal position then than they do in many countries today, but also that much of the the economy was run on slave l abour, denying freedom to substantial numbers of persons. From the fifth century onwards, the empire fell apart in the west but remained intact and exceptionally prosperous in its eastern half. Roman historians have a rich collection of sources to go on, which we can broadly divide into three groups: (a) texts, (b) documents and (c) material remains. Textual sources i nclude letters, speeches, sermons, laws, and histories of the period written by contemporaries. These were usually called ‘Annals’ because the narrative was constructed on a year-by-year basis. Documentary sources include mainly inscriptions and papyri. Inscriptions were usually cut on stone, so a large number survive, in both Greek and Latin. The ‘papyrus’ was a reed l ike plant that grew along the banks of the Nile in Egypt and was processed to produce sheets of writing material that was very widely used in everyday life. Thousands of contracts, accounts, letters and official documents survive ‘on papyrus’ and have been published by scholars who are called ‘papyrologists’. Material remains include a very wide assortment of items that mainly archaeologists d iscover (for example, through excavation and field survey), for example, buildings, monuments and other kinds of structures, pottery, coins, mosaics, even entire l andscapes. Each of these sources can only tell us just so much about the past, and combining them can be a fruitful exercise, but how well this is done d epends on the historian’s skill! Much of the economy in the Roman empire was run on:

    A
    women
    B
    slave labour
    C
    archaeologists
    D
    scholars
  • The Roman Empire covered a vast stretch of territory that included most of Europe as we know it today and a large part o f the Fertile Crescent and North Africa. The Roman empire embraced a wealth of local cultures and languages, that women had a stronger legal position then than they do in many countries today, but also that much of the the economy was run on slave l abour, denying freedom to substantial numbers of persons. From the fifth century onwards, the empire fell apart in the west but remained intact and exceptionally prosperous in its eastern half. Roman historians have a rich collection of sources to go on, which we can broadly divide into three groups: (a) texts, (b) documents and (c) material remains. Textual sources i nclude letters, speeches, sermons, laws, and histories of the period written by contemporaries. These were usually called ‘Annals’ because the narrative was constructed on a year-by-year basis. Documentary sources include mainly inscriptions and papyri. Inscriptions were usually cut on stone, so a large number survive, in both Greek and Latin. The ‘papyrus’ was a reed l ike plant that grew along the banks of the Nile in Egypt and was processed to produce sheets of writing material that was very widely used in everyday life. Thousands of contracts, accounts, letters and official documents survive ‘on papyrus’ and have been published by scholars who are called ‘papyrologists’. Material remains include a very wide assortment of items that mainly archaeologists d iscover (for example, through excavation and field survey), for example, buildings, monuments and other kinds of structures, pottery, coins, mosaics, even entire l andscapes. Each of these sources can only tell us just so much about the past, and combining them can be a fruitful exercise, but how well this is done d epends on the historian’s skill! Which of these statements is NOT true?

    A
    Texts, documents a nd material remains were the main sources for the historians.
    B
    The Roman empire flourished longer in the west.
    C
    Inscriptions were carved in Greek and Latin.
    D
    Archaeologists make discoveries through excavations.
  • The Roman Empire covered a vast stretch of territory that included most of Europe as we know it today and a large part o f the Fertile Crescent and North Africa. The Roman empire embraced a wealth of local cultures and languages, that women had a stronger legal position then than they do in many countries today, but also that much of the the economy was run on slave l abour, denying freedom to substantial numbers of persons. From the fifth century onwards, the empire fell apart in the west but remained intact and exceptionally prosperous in its eastern half. Roman historians have a rich collection of sources to go on, which we can broadly divide into three groups: (a) texts, (b) documents and (c) material remains. Textual sources i nclude letters, speeches, sermons, laws, and histories of the period written by contemporaries. These were usually called ‘Annals’ because the narrative was constructed on a year-by-year basis. Documentary sources include mainly inscriptions and papyri. Inscriptions were usually cut on stone, so a large number survive, in both Greek and Latin. The ‘papyrus’ was a reed l ike plant that grew along the banks of the Nile in Egypt and was processed to produce sheets of writing material that was very widely used in everyday life. Thousands of contracts, accounts, letters and official documents survive ‘on papyrus’ and have been published by scholars who are called ‘papyrologists’. Material remains include a very wide assortment of items that mainly archaeologists d iscover (for example, through excavation and field survey), for example, buildings, monuments and other kinds of structures, pottery, coins, mosaics, even entire l andscapes. Each of these sources can only tell us just so much about the past, and combining them can be a fruitful exercise, but how well this is done d epends on the historian’s skill! Documentary sources of the h istory of Roman empire include:

    A
    inscriptions
    B
    pottery
    C
    landscapes
    D
    sermons
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