HISTORICAL DATA Flashcards
deals with people, places, or events of the past.
History
are sourced from artifacts that have been left by the past.
Historical Data
can either be relics or remains, or the testimonies of witnesses to the past.
Artifacts
it is an object from the past, especially one that has no modern function but is frequently valued for its meaning or relevance in history.
Relics or Remains
A written or oral statement provided by an individual who has relevant information about a case.
Testimonies of Witnesses
Written Source of History
1.Narrative or Literary
2.Diplomatic or Juridical
3.Social Documents
are chronicles or tracts presented in narrative form, written to impart a message whose motives for their composition vary widely.
Narrative or Literary
is a telling of some actual or fictitious event or connected sequence of events, sometimes recounted by a narrator to an audience.
narrative
is therefore broader than what is usually considered fiction.
narrative source
are understood to be those which document/record an existing legal situation or create a new one, and it is these kind of sources that professional historians one treated as the purest, the “best” source.
Diplomatic Source
are information pertaining to economic, social, political, or judicial significance.
Social Documents
They are records kept by bureaucracies.
Social Documents
Non-Written Source of History
1.Material Evidence
2.Oral Evidence
Also known as “archaeological evidence” is one of the most important unwritten pieces of evidence.
Material Evidence
may also be revealed by the presence of artifacts in different places.
Commercial exchange
way of performing historical research that involves recorded conversations between a narrator who has firsthand involvement with historically significant events and a knowledgeable interviewer, with the purpose of adding to the historical record.
Oral Evidence
are original, first-hand accounts of an event or period that are usually written or made during or close to the event or period.
Primary Source
These sources are original and factual, not interpretive,
Primary Source
Key function: to provide facts.
Primary Source
It offers summaries or valuable interpretation on historical events, but it does not present original data or first-hand account.
Materials made by people long after the event. It discusses information derived from primary source.
Secondary Source
