This presentation is showing a comparison between the life of past and present.

1. Ways of Life in Past andWays of Life in Past and
PresentPresent

2. How to Enquire about
history?
• To see history is a process of
enquiry.
• Finding out about things rather than
just reading about them.
• History is more than just set of
fixed facts that are written and
never questioned.

3. How can you find out (1)?
• Following are the questions that can be
asked from a researcher after conducting
a research to know about his findings i.e.
• How did you find out?
• How is history found out?
• What is the method of enquiry?
• How do historians learn history?

4. How can you find out(2)?
• Answer to all the above
asked questions are as
following:
• By reading old documents,
letters and papers, by
asking people, by looking at
things people have made
such as old kitchen
implements (artifacts)
• the pyramids, pottery,
hieroglyphics are all the
examples of artifacts that
help us learn about past.

5. Ways of life in past
• In the past the way people lived was
very different from the way in which
we live now-a-days.
• It includes life style, ways of
communication, transportation,
fashion, education, entertainment,

6. Ways of communication in
past and present
• In old times people
commonly used oral
communication to talk
to people close to
them and to talk to
people from far away
used telegrams.

7. Ways of transportation in
past and present
• In the past people used
to travel using cycles,
tongas and for long
distance traveling they
used animals like camels
and elephants.
• But now in cars, motor
bikes, rickshaws and
buses are used to cover
short distances and
common transports for
long distance are trains
and airplanes.

8. Ways of dressing in past
and present
• In past people used
to dress up in
simple ways.
• But now people
have developed a
trend of
fashionable, latest
trend, and stylish
clothes.

9. Using accessories in past
and present
• In past people used to
wear simple shoes, no
lust for jewelry and
lead a simple life.
• People now-a-days are
more into wearing
matching, weather it
is shoes, jewelry or
anything related to
make them look good.

10. Eating habits in past and
present
• People in posts had
simple diet and ate
fresh, natural and
healthy food.
• Burgers, sharwamas,
patties, French fries
and many more are the
favorite of people
now-a-days.

11. Ways of entertainment in
past and present
• Holding street plays, plays
in amphitheaters and story
telling were most famous
and common ways of
getting entertainment.
• Attending concerts, going
out in theater to watch
movies are the vast ways
of getting entertainment
but the most common ways
ate TV, mobile, radio and
many more.

12. Houses, Shops and Buildings
in past and present
• The building in past
were simple with less
electric appliances and
most of the work was
done by hand.
• Now-a-days in houses
there are more
electrical appliances
with more fancy items
of use.

13. Ways of using kitchen
implements in past
• In past many different
types of kitchen
implements were used like:
• Open airy cupboards to
store food
• Ice was made under ground
• Havan Dasts/ motar and
pestle and Sil Bats to grind
food

14. Ways of using kitchen
implements in present
• In present many
different types of
kitchen implements
are being used like:
• Fridge
• Freezer is used to
make ice
• grinders are used to
grind food