Mod1_The meaning of history and historical sources Flashcards
The study and writing of history can be traced back from the ____
Greek Tradition
English word “history” derived from Greek word noun– “___” meaning “__” or ____
historia
learning
knowing by inquiry
___ is considered as the father of history
Herodotus
__ said that history meant a systematic account of a set of natural phenomena
Aristotle
In the course of time, Latin word “___” or science came to be used more to designate non-chronological systematic accounts of natural phenomena
scientia
Common definition of History
the past of mankind
____- the experience of generation long dead whose records is beyond the possibility of total recollection
fortiori
Testimony are considered ____
subjective
subjective has also come to mean “___” or based upon personal considerations hence either “__” or “___”
illusory
untrue
Biased
___ are the results of events
Artifacts
__ may be the results of the records of events
written documents
Two aims of historians
interpretative and descriptive
Explaining why and how things happened and were interrelated
interpretative
telling what happened, when and where and who took part
descriptive
Historians are tasked at re-creating ___ image of as much of the past as the evidences makes recoverable
verisimilar
__ is like true but is not necessarily actually true
verisimilar
___ the process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past
historical method
the writing of history or the imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process
Historiography
the writing of history or the imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process
Historiography
___ is the testimony of an eyewitness or of a witness by any other senses, or of a mechanical device like ____.
primary source
Dictaphone
___ 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
secondary source
___ is a word of different meanings
Original
A document is orig because it contains _ and _ ideas
fresh and creative
A document is orig because it is not ____in which it was first written
translated from the language
A document is orig because it is in its ___, __ stage
earliest
unpolished
A document is orig because its text is the ___, ___, and ___
approved text, unmodified and untampered
A document is orig because it is the ____source of the information it provides.
earliest
Historian when analyzing sources are interested chiefly in ____ and that he asks particularlly whether it is based on __ or __ testimony
particulars
First-hand/Second-hand
written source of historical information
document
any process of proof based upon any kind of source whether written, oral, pictorial or archaelogical
documentation
____ 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.
human document
___ 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
personal document
