L1 The Meaning of History

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derived from the Greek word “historia”.

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HISTORY

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the meaning if “historia”.

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Learning by Inquiry

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This Greek philosopher looked upon history as the systematic accounting of a set of natural phenomena.

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Aristotle

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theories constructed by historians in investigating history

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Factual History & Speculative History

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it presents readers the plain and basic information, the events that took place, usually answers questions what, when, who.

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factual history

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it goes beyond facts because it is concerned about the reasons for which events happened - why, and the way they happened - how.

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speculative history

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deals with the study of past events.

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history

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individuals who write about the history. they seek to understand the present by examining what went before.

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Historians

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they undertake arduous historical research to come up with a meaningful and organized rebuilding of the past.

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historians

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this is the basic question that historians need to answer.

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“whose past are we talking about?”

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the practice of historical writing

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historiography

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this is a traditional method in doing historical writing research that focus on gathering of documents from the different libraries and archives to form a pool of evidence needed in making a descriptive or analytical narrative.

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historiography

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this means the whole history of the past

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history-as-actuality

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this means can only be known through the surviving records

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history-as-record

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this history is only a tiny part of the whole phenomenon

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history-as-record

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they study the records or evidence that survived the time, and tell the story from what they understood as a credible part of the record. however their claims remain variable

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Historians

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this is what historians aim

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verisimilitude

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Verisimilitude means

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the truth, authenticity, plausibility about a past

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TRUE or FALSE. The study of history is a subjective process as documents and relics are scattered.

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TRUE

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

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Historical Method

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the imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process

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Historiography

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TRUE or FALSE. historians are advised to reconstruct as much of the past of mankind as they can.

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FALSE

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this historical method historians investigate, collects, and examine sources

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Historical analysis

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incompleteness of records has limited mans knowledge of history

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limitation of historical knowledge

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objects or things that have since been forgotten or the experience of generation long dead.

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artifacts or documents