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HISTORY Grade 10 Educational Publications Department ...

ii First Print 2014 Second Print 2015 Third Print 2017 Fourth Print 2018 Fifth print 2020 All Rights Reserved ISBN - 978 - 955 - ...

iii The National Anthem of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Matha Apa Sri Lanka Namo Namo Namo Namo Matha Sundara siri barinee, surendi athi ...

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v Foreword The Educational Publications Department which is entrusted with the responsibility of providing a free textbook to th ...

vi Monitoring and Supervision - P. N. Ilapperuma Commissioner General Educational Publications Department Direction - W. A. Nirm ...

vii Panel of Writers K. S. Ranjani - In-Service - Adviser Zonal Education Office, Horana M.D. Thilakalatha - Teacher C.W.W. ...

viii Message from the Panel of Editors In simple terms, history is the story of how the human generation behaved in the past. Wh ...

ix Contents ...

Access for knowledge with joy and leisure 1.1 Classification of Sources Page 1.2 Importance of Learning History 1.3 Protecting ...

1. Sources of Studying History 1.1 Classification of Sources History is a subject which studies the past human activities. When ...

Fig 1.1. Ancient literary and religious information as well as the Wamsakatha have been written on ola leaves. Sri Lanka inherit ...

them too are different. The books which had been written from Anuradhapura era to the beginning of Kotte era have had religious ...

After the 2nd century A.D. inscriptions were established to write records on various events such as offering premises to temples ...

Ancient Ruins Many ruins such as ancient buildings, stupas, stone pillars, tanks and ponds can be seen in Sri Lanka. Since some ...

Cave Inscriptions Inscriptions written near the drip ledges of caves Rock inscriptions Inscriptions written on rock surfaces or ...

Fig. 1.6. The sculpture of Man and the Head of Horse in Isurumuni temple in Anuradhapura. This sculpture is believed to have bee ...

Important Facts  The things that help learn history are called sources.  Sources are divided into two as literary sources and ...

Diksanda Seneviya Pirivena (Monastery)– There were several monasteries affiliated to Anuradhapura Maha Vihara. Sunhatha Pirivena ...

2. Ancient Settlements Introduction Sri Lanka became a human habitation one hundred and twenty five thousand years ago. The Homo ...