Historical Inquiry Flashcards
What is history?
The investigation of peoples actions and expiriences in past times.
What do we find out about?
- The societies and values of people who lived in the past.
- What people did, the reasons for and the result of their actions.
- How the world and people have changed over time.
What does investigating the past do?
Helps us understand other peoples viewpoints, shows how the world has changed over time, How the past has shaped our world today and how we play a part in its future.
What do historians do?
Attempt to understand our world, using past examples, for the better or for worst. They do this through, people, society and events in the past.
What are the “W” words?
Who, What, When, Where, Why and How
What does investigating the past do?
It shows how people lived in earlier societies and how their ideas, values, actions and relationships have shaped the world in how it is today.
What is history about?
- Asking questions
- collecting information
- searching for clues that may produce evidence
- developing theories
What are sources?
Anything that provides information about the past.
What are 5 things archeologists do to help uncover the past?
- Finds are carfully washed and labelled to record the trench and layers in wich they are found.
- Strata revealed by the trench help archaeologists to
date the various layers of the dig. - Objects and sections of the site are photographed.
- Positions of objects are recorded using drawing
frames divided into squares. - An ongoing record of progress at the dig is kept.
What are two skills in uncovering the past?
Linguists: Study the nature and structure of language, how it has changed over time and the language styles used in certain types of documents and in particular time periods.
Anthropologists: Study human development, including human origin, behaviour, and physical, social and cultural development.
Who was Howard Carter?
Discovered the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun
What was the early discoveries of Tutankhamun?
he measured 1.68 metres in height and was slightly built, with a cut to the left side of his jaw and a curve in his spine. The mummy’s condition had deteriorated because of Carter’s rough handling of the body.
What happened with the first CT scan?
In 2005 Egyptian medical experts conducted a CT scan of Tutankhamun’s remains. These produced both new information and comments on earlier investigations.
• Tutankhamun was generally well fed and in good health.
• He had the same very long face as other members of his family.
• Some injuries to his body, such as the bend in the spine and the bone fragments in the skull, probably
occurred either during the embalming process or during Carter’s investigation.
• He had had a bad break in his left leg shortly before his death and developed an infection in it. Team members were unanimous in stating that Tutankhamun was not murdered. They wondered whether the leg injury contributed to his death.
What is a scaled and unscaled timeline?
Scaled: Timeline with proper measurments between dates and a key to link the measurments with the dates.
Unscaled: A timeline, ussualy with a very big time range, that has averaged where the dates are.
What does good historical writing include?
Strong but clear claims focused on the question being asked. Detailed relevant evidence presented in support of your claim. Higher order discussion of evidence that, supports your claims and highlights one or more historical terms or concepts. Last, a continuation of logic or argument showing a sophisticated
understanding of the topic and its issues as a whole.
What happened with the DNA analysis?
Further CT scans combined with DNA testing and analysis from 2008 to 2010 provided more information on the young pharaoh’s life and the most likely cause of his death. Testing revealed that Tutankhamun’s parents were brother and sister, and that this may have been the reason for his genetic problems a cleft palate, a club foot and a bone disease in the left foot. DNA analysis also showed that Tutankhamun was a victim of malaria and that this was the probable cause of his death.
How do historians select and organise their information?
Locate sources relevant to the topic they are investigating. Select from those sources the information that is relevant to their topic and that helps answer the questions that are guiding their inquiry. Organise the information that a source contains so that they can use it as evidence. They can do this by recording it under their question headings and developing sub-headings to organise their information into smaller and more manageable ‘bits’. They might find it helpful to record some of their information in a table, flow chart or map.
How do historians find out if something is reliable?
Provides accurate or inaccurate information, states facts or opinions, is biased for or against something, is created to make someone believe something or act in a certain way.
Yet some unreliable sources can be very useful. For example, they may help make us aware of how people, can use inaccurate information to gain a particular advantage or convince people to accept a particular viewpoint.
Give me 2 examples of how you know a witness is unreliable.
A number of witnesses could each give a different version of the same, a witness may simply be repeating what others have recounted and may not know anything, a witness might lie to give a false impression of what really happened, a witness may have some prejudice against a person or group and dislike them because of their race, culture or religion, a witness might build up certain parts of a story and say very little about other parts. Leaving out information can create an impression that is quite different from the reality.
What does” Ancient times” mean?
The time after people began to create written records.
What are the 4 different types of sources?
Oral evidence, Written evidence, Physical evidence and Structural evidence.
What are the 6 key Historical concepts?
- Continuity and Change
- Cause and Effect
- Different Perspectives
- Empethetic Understanding
- Significants
- Contestability
What is continuity and change?
What was normal and what was not in a society.
What was cause and effect?
A thing that makes something else happen. It might be an event, an action, a decision or a development.
What are different perspectives?
Someones values, beliefs and experiences shape their perspective that influences the way they feel, act and behave towards people, ideas and the world.
What is empathetic understanding?
When you see their world, appruciate them as human beings, understand their feelings and communicate your understanding.
What is significance?
Some things are more important that others and so deserve more attention from historians.
What is contestability?
“History is largly interpritation”. Be happy when you are proven wrong, so now you can be right.
What is autopsy?
An examination to discover the cause of a persons death.
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