Vocabulary Preteach

sources - evidence historians (detectives) use to make guesses about the truth of what happened

inscriptions - carved words in stone

Sanskrit - an ancient language from India

hyperbolic panegyrics - overstated flattery to the king (i.e. "king of kings, ruler of all life. . .")

edifice - building

affixed - stuck to

perished - died, decayed

Data Set One