LESSON 1 - LEARNING HISTORY

Question 1

History as a discipline existed for around how many years?

Answer 1

2,400 years

Question 2

History was derived from the Greek word___?

Answer 2

Historia

Question 3

Historia means…?

Answer 3

“knowledge acquired through inquiry or investigation”

Question 4

Historia became known as…?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

This is defined as the history of history

Answer 5

Historiography

Question 6

Historiography also refers to the ____ and _____ of historical writing

Answer 6

theory and history

Question 7

The person who writes about or studies history

Answer 7

Historian

Question 8

It became historians duty to:

Answer 8

“write about the lives of important individuals like monarchs, heroes, saints, and nobilities”

Question 9

History was also focused on writing about:

Answer 9

War and Revolution

Question 10

He is a Greek Historian and is usually referred to as “The Father of History”

Answer 10

Herodotus

Question 11

Other specialists that historian also collaborate with:

Answer 11

Archeologists, Linguists, Scientists, Biologists, and Biochemists.

Question 12

A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains

Answer 12

Archeologist

Question 13

This specialist can also be helpful in tracing historical evolutions, past connections among different groups and flow of cultural influence by studying language

Answer 13

Linguist

Question 14

Historian’s most important research tools are called?

Answer 14

Historical Sources

Question 15

Historians and archeologists can use _____ from a _____ era to study ancient civilizations that were formerly ignored in history because of lack of documents

Answer 15

Artifacts and Bygone Era

Question 16

Dinosaurs lived throughout _____ Era, which began 245 million years ago and lasted for 180 million years.

Answer 16

Mesozoic Era

Question 17

Mesozoic Era are sometimes called what?

Answer 17

Age of the Reptile

Question 18

Historical Sources can be classified between:

Answer 18

Primary Sources and Secondary Sources

Question 19

Define Primary Sources

Answer 19

those sources produced at the same time as the event, period, or subject being studied

Question 20

Give some examples of Primary Sources

Answer 20

Reports
Records
Draft
Photographs
Eyewitness accounts
Memoirs
Artifacts
Letters
Census
Diaries
Journals
Autobiographies

Question 21

Define Secondary Sources

Answer 21

those sources, which were produced by an author who used primary sources to produce the material

Question 22

________ sources were created by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions you’re researching

Answer 22

Secondary

Question 23

Give some examples of Secondary Sources

Answer 23

Textbooks
Bibliographies
Commentaries
Criticisms
Dictionaries
Printed Materials

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Historical Criticisms

Question 25

Two Types of Historical Criticisms

Answer 25

External Criticism and Internal Criticism

Question 26

This is the practice of verifying the authenticity of evidence by examining its physical characteristics

Answer 26

External Criticism

Question 27

Example of the things that will be examined when conducting external criticism of a document

Answer 27

Include the Quality of the Paper
The Type of the Ink
The Language and Words used in the Material

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Sumerian archaic (pre-cuneiform) writing

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Question 29

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

Answer 29

3400 - 3100 BC

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Internal Criticism

Question 31

The Task of the Historian is to… (first answer)

Answer 31

“look
at the available historical sources
and select the most relevant and
meaningful for history and for the
subject matter that he is studying”

Question 32

The Task of the Historian is to… (second answer)

Answer 32

“organized the past that is being created so that it can offer lessons
for the nation, societies and civilization”

Question 33

It is the historian’s job to…

Answer 33

“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”

Question 34

This Greek word means…

“knowledge acquired through inquiry or investigation”

Answer 34

Historia

Question 35

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”

Answer 35

Historia