LESSON 1 - LEARNING HISTORY Flashcards
History as a discipline existed for around how many years?
2,400 years
History was derived from the Greek word___?
Historia
Historia means…?
“knowledge acquired through inquiry or investigation”
Historia became known as…?
“the account of the past of a person or a group of people through written documents and historical evidences”
This is defined as the history of history
Historiography
Historiography also refers to the ____ and _____ of historical writing
theory and history
The person who writes about or studies history
Historian
It became historians duty to:
“write about the lives of important individuals like monarchs, heroes, saints, and nobilities”
History was also focused on writing about:
War and Revolution
He is a Greek Historian and is usually referred to as “The Father of History”
Herodotus
Other specialists that historian also collaborate with:
Archeologists, Linguists, Scientists, Biologists, and Biochemists.
A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains
Archeologist
This specialist can also be helpful in tracing historical evolutions, past connections among different groups and flow of cultural influence by studying language
Linguist
Historian’s most important research tools are called?
Historical Sources
Historians and archeologists can use _____ from a _____ era to study ancient civilizations that were formerly ignored in history because of lack of documents
Artifacts and Bygone Era
Dinosaurs lived throughout _____ Era, which began 245 million years ago and lasted for 180 million years.
Mesozoic Era
Mesozoic Era are sometimes called what?
Age of the Reptile
Historical Sources can be classified between:
Primary Sources and Secondary Sources
Define Primary Sources
those sources produced at the same time as the event, period, or subject being studied
Give some examples of Primary Sources
Reports
Records
Draft
Photographs
Eyewitness accounts
Memoirs
Artifacts
Letters
Census
Diaries
Journals
Autobiographies
Define Secondary Sources
those sources, which were produced by an author who used primary sources to produce the material
________ sources were created by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you’re researching
Secondary
Give some examples of Secondary Sources
Textbooks
Bibliographies
Commentaries
Criticisms
Dictionaries
Printed Materials
In order for a source to be used as evidence in history, basic matters about its form and content must be settle
Historical Criticisms
Two Types of Historical Criticisms
External Criticism and Internal Criticism
This is the practice of verifying the authenticity of evidence by examining its physical characteristics
External Criticism
Example of the things that will be examined when conducting external criticism of a document
Include the Quality of the Paper
The Type of the Ink
The Language and Words used in the Material
These two are generally considered the earliest true writing systems, both emerging out of their ancestral proto-literate symbol systems from 3400-3100 BC, with earliest coherent texts from about 2600 BC
Sumerian archaic (pre-cuneiform) writing
Egyptian hieroglyphs
The Sumerian archaic (pre-cuneiform) writing and the Egyptian hieroglyphs are generally considered the earliest true writing systems, both emerging out of their ancestral proto-literate
symbol systems from _____ - _____ BC
3400 - 3100 BC
This practice looks at the
truthfulness and factuality of the
evidence by looking at the author
of the source, its context, the
agenda behind creation, the
knowledge which informed it, and
its intended purpose among
others
Internal Criticism
The Task of the Historian is to… (first answer)
“look
at the available historical sources
and select the most relevant and
meaningful for history and for the
subject matter that he is studying”
The Task of the Historian is to… (second answer)
“organized the past that is being created so that it can offer lessons
for the nation, societies and civilization”
It is the historian’s job to…
“seek for
the meaning of recovering the past
to let the people see the continuing
relevance of provenance, memory,
remembering, and historical
understanding for both the present
and the future”
This Greek word means…
“knowledge acquired through inquiry or investigation”
Historia
This Greek word also became known as…
“the account of the past of a person or a group of people through written documents and historical evidences”
Historia
