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Lesson 2: SOURCES OF HISTORICAL DATA Flashcards

1
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Are sourced from artifacts that have been left by the past.

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Historical data

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Artifacts left by the past includes?

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Relics or remains, or the testimonies of witnesses to the past

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Historical sources are those materials from which the historians construct meaning. True or False.

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True

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Is an object from the past or a testimony concerning the past on which historians depend to create their own depiction of that past.

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Source

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It [provides evidence about the
existence of an event

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Source

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Is an argument about the event.

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Historical Interpretation

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Historians deal with different aspects of history such as?

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  1. Dynamic or generic (the becoming)
  2. Static (the being)
  3. Interpretative (explaining why and how things happened and we interrelated)
  4. Descriptive (telling what, where, when, and who took part in what happened)
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Categories of written history

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  1. Narrative/Literary
  2. Diplomatic/Juridical
  3. Social documents
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Are chronicles or tracts presented in narrative form,
written to impart a message whose motives for their composition vary widely.

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Narrative/Literary

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Provide examples of narrative/literary sources

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  1. Scientific tract
  2. Newspaper article
  3. Ego document/Personal Narrative
  4. Novel/Film
  5. Biography
  6. Hagiography
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10
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A narrative source is therefore not a broader than what is usually considered fiction. True or False?

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False

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Are understood to be those which document/record an existing legal situation or create a new one, and it is these kinds of sources that professional
historians once treated as the purest, the “best” source.

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Diplomatic sources

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A _____ is usually sealed or authenticated
to provide evidence that a legal transaction has been completed and can be used as evidence in a judicial proceeding in case of dispute.

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Legal document

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These possess specific formal properties, such as hand and print style, the ink, the seal, for external properties and rhetorical devices and images for internal properties, which are determined by the norms of laws and by tradition.

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Diplomatic sources

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Are information pertaining to economic, social, political, or
judicial significance.

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Social documents

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What are examples of social documents?

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Municipal accounts, research findings, and documents like
these parliamentary procedures, civil registry records, property registers, and records of census.

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They are records kept by bureaucracies.

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Social documents

14
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What are the two types of non-written sources?

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  1. Material evidence
  2. Oral evidence
15
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Also known as archeological evidence is one of the most
important unwritten evidences.

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Material evidence

16
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This include artistic creations such as pottery, jewelry,
dwellings, graves, churches, roads, and others that tell a story about the past.

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Material evidence

17
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Known historical sites are purposely excavated with the hope of reconstructing and understanding their
meaningful past. True or False?

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True

18
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Much are told by the tales or sagas of ancient peoples and the folk songs or popular rituals from the premodern period of Philippine history.

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Oral evidence

18
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Two general kinds of historical sources

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  1. Primary sources
  2. Secondary sources
19
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These sources are original
and factual, not interpretive. Their key function is to provide facts.

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Primary sources

19
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Are materials made by people long after the events being described had taken place to provide valuable interpretations of historical events.

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Secondary sources

19
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Are original, first-hand account of an event or period that are
usually written or made during or close to the event or period.

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Primary sources

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What are examples of primary sources?

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Diaries, journals, letters, newspaper and magazine articles (factual accounts),
government records (census, marriage, military), photographs, maps, postcards, posters, recorded or transcribed speeches, interviews with participants or witnesses, interviews with people who lived during a certain time, songs, plays, novels, stories, paintings, drawings, and sculptures.

20
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Analyzes and interprets primary sources.

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Secondary sources

20
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It is an interpretation
of second-hand account of a historical event.

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Secondary sources

21
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What are examples of secondary sources?

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Biographies, histories, literary criticism, books written by a third party about a historical
event, art and theater reviews, newspaper or journal articles that interpret

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