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History: An Introduction Flashcards

1
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The word history came from the greek noun historia meaning?

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Learning or inquiry

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account of the past of a person or a group of people through written documents and historical evidences

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History

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The definition of history “account of the past of a person or a group of people through written documents and historical evidences” was adapted from?

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Classical Latin

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History is also known as

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the past of mankind

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chronological record of significant
events, the study of past events

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HISTORY DUH

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Where did this definition came from?

chronological record of significant
events, the study of past events

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Webster’s Vest Pocket Dictionary(Springfield:
Merriam Webster, Inc., Publishers), p. 149

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History in Tagalog

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Kasaysayan

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Who’s definition is this Salaysay na may saysay para sa sinasalaysayang grupo ng tao

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Zeus Salazar

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Who said this

“If you talk to a man in a language he
understands, that goes to his head. If you
talk to him in his language, that goes to
his heart.”

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Nelson Mandela

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historians rely on

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surviving records

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T or F. the historian is many times included from the events under investigation

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F (removed)

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Who defined this? History is the inquiry conducted by the historian and the series of past events into which he inquires

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Carr

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T or F. History is the continuous process of interaction between the
historian and his facts, a temporary dialogue between the present and the past

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F (unending)

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For Carr, History means

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interpretation

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T or F. History is what the historian makes.

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T

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Who said this?

History is the re-enactment in the historian’s mind of the thought whose history he is studying.

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Collingwood

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Who said this?

History is the historian’s experience.

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-Oakeshott

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Who said this

History is “a selective system” not only of cognitive, but of causal, orientations to reality.

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-Parsons

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T or F. The historian is the largest circle in the entire past.

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F (smallest)

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Who said this

“Only a part of what was observed in the past was remembered by those who observed it; only a part of what was remembered was recorded; only a part of what was recorded has survived; only a part of what has survived has come to the historian’s attention; only a part of what
has come to their attention is credible; only a part of what is credible has been grasped, and only a part of what has
been grasped can be expounded or narrated by the historian.

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  • Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History
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21
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T or F. What people actually understand is only a fraction of what we say to them.

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T

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Identify method: Historians have to verify sources, to date them, locate
their place of origin and identify their intended functions

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Historical method

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23
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The process of critically examining
and analyzing the records and
survivals of the past

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History

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Who defined this? “The process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past”

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Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History

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Each generation of historians develops its own perspectives, and that our understanding of the past is constantly reshaped by?

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Historian

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Who said this?

“Each generation of historians develops its own perspectives, and that our understanding of the past is constantly reshaped by the historian and the world he or she inhabits”

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-Howell & Prevenier

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These are objects from the past or testimonies concerning the past on which historians depend in order
to create their own depiction of that past.

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Historical sources

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T or F. Howell and Prevenier defined historical sources as tangible remains of the past.

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F (Anthony Brundage, Going to Sources)

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 Books, magazines, journals,
 Travelogue
 transcription of speech

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Published materials

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 Archival materials
 Memoirs, diary

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Manuscript

31
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Written or non?

Oral history

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non

32
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Written or non?

Travelogue

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written

33
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Written or non?

Memoirs, diary

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w

34
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Written or non?

Ruins

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non

35
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Written or non?

Art works

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non

36
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Written or non?

Video/audio rec.

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non

37
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Testimony of an eyewitness

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Primary sources

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T or F. According to Gottschalk, a primary source must have been
produced by a contemporary of the event it narrates

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T

39
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materials produced by people or groups directly involved in the event or topic being studied.

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primary source

40
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people who holds primary sources are called?

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participants or witnesses

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these sources range from eyewitness accounts, diaries, letters, legal documents, and official documents (government or private) and even
photographs

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primary

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Four Main Categories of Primary Sources

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  1. Written sources
  2. Images
  3. Artifacts
  4. Oral testimony
43
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interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event.

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secondary resources

44
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T or F. Secondary sources may have pictures, quotes or
graphics of primary sources in them

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T

45
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T or F. Example of primary sources are history textbooks and printed materials.

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F (secondary)

46
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WHo said this?

“ The historian without his fact is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless”

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E.H. Carr

47
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In order for a source to be used as an evidence in history, basic matters about its form and content must
be settled

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Historical criticism

48
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The problem of authenticity

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external criticism

49
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To distinguish a hoax or misrepresentation

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external criticism

50
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T or F. Internal criticism allows us to spot fabricated, forged, faked documents

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F (external)

51
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To test the authenticity, determine the date of the document to see whether
they are?

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anachronistic

e.g. pencils did not exist before the 16th Century

52
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To test the authenticity, determine the?

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author

53
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e.g. idiom, ortography, punctuation

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anachronistic style

54
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test of authenticity that determines its genuineness

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Provenance or custody

55
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test of authenticity: e.g. too early, too late, too remote

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Anachronistic reference to events

56
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determining the meaning of a text or
word

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semantics

57
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determining ambiguities

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hermeneutics

58
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Problem of Credibility

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internal criticism

59
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as close as what really happened from a critical examination of best available sources

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verisimilar

60
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Three Major Components to Effective
Historical Thinking

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  1. Sensitivity to Multiple Causation
  2. Sensitivity to Context
  3. Awareness of the interplay of continuity and change in human affairs
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Who said this

“All historians, whatever their professional status, have ethical obligations to be humane,
accurate, self-aware and judicious.”

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  • Ludmilla Jordanova
62
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T or F. History has been used to control minds. If not by absolute
suppression or fabrication of events, at least by their slight
distortion.

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T

63
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T or F. The catastrophic result of this is that the colonizers became the selfish, and inhumane partners.

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F (unselfish, humane and
selfless partners)

64
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_____ by the colonizers became an
important component in the progression of colonial
consciousness or mentality.

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invented history

65
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hides the fact of the insensitive
motivations of the colonizers and their native collaborators
towards making colonization easier to accept.

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“fictional history”

66
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T or F. This mental conditioning has made it easy for the colonizers
to make the colonized believe that the policies implemented
by the former is for their own welfare and benefit.

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T

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