Mod1_The meaning of history and historical sources

Question 1

The study and writing of history can be traced back from the ____

Answer 1

Greek Tradition

Question 2

English word “history” derived from Greek word noun– “___” meaning “__” or ____

Answer 2

historia
learning
knowing by inquiry

Question 3

___ is considered as the father of history

Answer 3

Herodotus

Question 4

__ said that history meant a systematic account of a set of natural phenomena

Answer 4

Aristotle

Question 5

In the course of time, Latin word “___” or science came to be used more to designate non-chronological systematic accounts of natural phenomena

Answer 5

scientia

Question 6

Common definition of History

Answer 6

the past of mankind

Question 7

____- the experience of generation long dead whose records is beyond the possibility of total recollection

Answer 7

fortiori

Question 8

Testimony are considered ____

Answer 8

subjective

Question 9

subjective has also come to mean “___” or based upon personal considerations hence either “__” or “___”

Answer 9

illusory
untrue
Biased

Question 10

___ are the results of events

Answer 10

Artifacts

Question 11

__ may be the results of the records of events

Answer 11

written documents

Question 12

Two aims of historians

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interpretative and descriptive

Question 13

Explaining why and how things happened and were interrelated

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interpretative

Question 14

telling what happened, when and where and who took part

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descriptive

Question 15

Historians are tasked at re-creating ___ image of as much of the past as the evidences makes recoverable

Answer 15

verisimilar

Question 16

__ is like true but is not necessarily actually true

Answer 16

verisimilar

Question 17

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

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historical method

Question 18

the writing of history or the imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process

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Historiography

Question 19

the writing of history or the imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process

Answer 19

Historiography

Question 20

___ is the testimony of an eyewitness or of a witness by any other senses, or of a mechanical device like ____.

Answer 20

primary source
Dictaphone

Question 21

___ is the testimony of anyone who is not an eyewitness–that is, of one who was not present at the events of which he tells

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secondary source

Question 22

___ is a word of different meanings

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Original

Question 23

A document is orig because it contains _ and _ ideas

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fresh and creative

Question 24

A document is orig because it is not ____in which it was first written

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translated from the language

Question 25

A document is orig because it is in its ___, __ stage

Answer 25

earliest
unpolished

Question 26

A document is orig because its text is the ___, ___, and ___

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approved text, unmodified and untampered

Question 27

A document is orig because it is the ____source of the information it provides.

Answer 27

earliest

Question 28

Historian when analyzing sources are interested chiefly in ____ and that he asks particularlly whether it is based on __ or __ testimony

Answer 28

particulars
First-hand/Second-hand

Question 29

written source of historical information

Answer 29

document

Question 30

any process of proof based upon any kind of source whether written, oral, pictorial or archaelogical

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documentation

Question 31

____ has been identified as “account of individual experience which reveals the individual’s actions ad a human agent and as a participant in social life.

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human document

Question 32

___ had been defined as “ any self-revealing record that intentionally or unintentionally yields info regarding the structure, dynamics and functioning of the author’s mental life

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personal document