LESSON 1 Flashcards
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- “An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future of the past.” –
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Victor Hugo
2
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- “If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”–
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Michael Crichton
3
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- “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. -
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Edmund Burke
4
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- Study of the past
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HISTORY
4
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- Derived from Greek word historia which means “knowledge through acquired inquiry or investigation”.
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HISTORY
5
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- Account of the Past
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HISTORY
5
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- Existed for around 2,400 years and is as old as mathematics and philosophy.
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HISTORY
6
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- Traditional Historian lived with the mantra of “no document, no history.”
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HISTORY
7
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- “History is valuable because it teaches people what they have done and thus what man is.”
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(Collingwood, 1976)
8
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- “The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.”
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(Theodore Roosevelt)
9
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- “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots”.
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(Robert Penn Warren)
10
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- The study of the way history has been and is written
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HISTORIOGRAPHY
10
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- Provide not only historical facts but also understanding of the fact’s and the Historian’s contexts.
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HISTORIOGRAPHY
10
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- History of history
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HISTORIOGRAPHY
10
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Its objective is history itself
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HISTORIOGRAPHY