History Unit 1: Intorduction To History

Question 1

What is history?

Answer 1

The study of past events that evolve or effect people/things
-> study based on interpretation of evidence. NO evidence, NO proof

Question 2

What is evidence

Answer 2

Two types

1. Primary
2. Secondary

Question 3

What is primary evidence

Answer 3

Evidence that comes the time of the events
Has eye witness quality
Ex. Diary, letter, song, film

Question 4

What is secondary evidence

Answer 4

Created after the event
- based on primary evidence
Ex. Books, magazine articles, documentary films
- includes author interpretation and biases

Question 5

How are historians like detectives

Answer 5

• relate evidence about an event
• determine weather it is fact or inference
• check bias
• put all info together, analyze then draw a conclusion
• finish w/ a thesis or explanation

Question 6

How are there different sides

Answer 6

• different views of some events
• interpret evidence differently and come w/ different conclusion
• ppl may make a story sound better or worse then reality
• history is usually written by dominate groups or people

Question 7

How is history not complete

Answer 7

• always changing
• old evidence interpret, new info comes to light sorry changes and history is re written
• historical events always has a background