History Flashcards
Causality
Reason something happens is a basic category of human thinking
History
Study of past, political, and economic events as well as cultural and social conditions
3 main divisions
A) time periods
B) nations
C) specialized topics
Conflict
Opposition of ideas, principles, values, or claims
Bias
Prejudice or predisposition either toward or against something
Interdependence
Two things rely upon one another
Identity
State of being a particular thing or person
Nation-state
Particular type of political entity that provides a sovereign territory for a specific nation in which other factors also unite the citizens (langauge, race, ancestry)
Culture
Civilization, achievements, and customs of the people of a particular time and place
Herodotus
Wrote about wars between Greeks and Persians. “Father of history”
Thucydides
Wrote about war between Athens and Sparta titled “history of the peloponnesian war”
Livy
Roman historian wrote “history from the founding of the city”
Eusebius
“Ecclesiastical history” history of Christianity showing gods control of human events
Bede
“Ecclesiastical history of the English nation”
Ibn khaldun
Arab historian wrote a study of world civilization entitled “universal history”
Edward gibbon
British scholar wrote “history of the decline and fall of Roman Empire” showed bias against Christianity and blamed Christianity for part of the fall of Roman Empire
