how do you know the past? Share with your friends Share 0 Jaya T. answered this Hi, Please follow the link: https://www.meritnation.com/ask-answer/question/what-is-history-and-why-do-we-need-to-study-history/what-where-how-and-when/2726084 0 View Full Answer Madiha Hasan answered this what sort of question is this 0 Urmi Mirani answered this well, we can know the past by inscriptions, manuscripts, historical monuments. -1 Ananya Kumar answered this because we can find inscriptions, artefacts, etc. on exclavation sites... historians can also predict things which have must happended in past... 0 Ashish answered this We can know about the past in the following ways:1.What peaple ate.2.The kinds of clothes the wore.3.The houses in which they lived in. 1 Pratyush Mehra answered this we can know about the past by reading history 0