Module 1: "History, Sources, Criticism" Flashcards

1
Q

History, from Greek _______, Historia, “_______,
knowledge acquired by
investigation”

A

ἱστορία
inquiry

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2
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Is the study of the
past as it is described in written
documents.

A

History

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3
Q

Events occurring before written record are considered ______

A

prehistory

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4
Q

It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the ____________of information about these events.

A

memory,
discovery,
collection,
organization,
presentation, and interpretation

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5
Q

Scholars who write about history are called ________.

A

historians

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6
Q

Give 4 historians

A
  1. Teodoro Agoncillo
  2. Trinidad Pardo de Tavera
  3. Fr. Horacio de la Costa, SJ
  4. Gregorio F. Zaide
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7
Q

Is the sum total of everything
that has actually happened in the
past-every thought, every action,
every event.

A

History

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8
Q

In this sense, “history” is
surely on of the broadest concepts
conceived by the _______

A

human intellect

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9
Q

History as broadly defined, as encompasses the __________.

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entire scope of the human experience on this planet.

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10
Q

History is not ‘_________’ rather, it is the act of selecting, analyzing, and writing the past.

A

what happened in the past

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11
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“To be ignorant of the past is to remain always a child.”

by ___________

A

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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12
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

by ___________

A

George Santayana

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13
Q

Famous Quotes about history

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul

by ___________

A

John Dalberg Acton

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14
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“History is written by
the victors.”

by ___________

A

Winston Churchill

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15
Q

Famous Quotes about history

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

by ___________

A

Marcus Garvey

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16
Q

Famous Quotes about history

There is no future
without memory.

by ___________

A

Jacques Chirac

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17
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“The study of the past with one
eye upon the present is the
source of all sins and
sophistries in history. It is the
essence of what we mean by the
word “unhistorical”.”

by ___________

A

Herbert Butterfield

18
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“I shall relate quite simply how things happened and without adding anything of my own, which is no small feat for an historian.”

by ___________

A

― François-Marie Arouet
“Voltaire”

19
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and
meaningless.”

by ___________

A

Edward Hallett Carr

20
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“In your travel, learn the
brief history of the place
visited. History is rich
knowledge.”

by ___________

A

Lailah Gifty Akita

21
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“History teaches us that man
learns nothing from history.”

by __________

A

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

22
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“Life can only be
understood backwards
but it must be lived
forward.”

by ___________

A

Soren Kierkegaard

23
Q

Famous Quotes about history

Writers are historians,
too. It is in literature that
the greater truths about a
people and their past are
found.”

by ___________

A

-Francisco Sionil Jose

24
Q

Famous Quotes about history

We are not makers of
history. We are made by
history.

by ___________

A

Martin Luther King, Jr.

25
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“History is the version
of past events that
people have decided to
agree upon.”

by ___________

A

Napoleon Bonaparte

26
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“History never
looks like history
when you are
living through it.”

by ___________

A

John W. Gardner

27
Q

Famous Quotes about history

“Fear history, for
it respects no
secrets.”

by ___________

A

Gregoria de Jesus

28
Q

There are diverse sources of history including

A

documentary sources or documents, archeological
records, and
oral and video accounts.

29
Q

These refer to handwritten, printed, drawn, designed, and other composed materials.

A

Documents

30
Q

These refer to preserved remains of human beings,
their activities, and the environment where they lived.

A

Archeological Records

31
Q

These form the third kind of historical source. These
are audio-visual documentation of people, events, and places.

A

Oral and Video Account

32
Q

These refer to documents, physical objects, and oral/video accounts made by an individual; or a group present at the time and place being described.

A

Primary Sources

33
Q

These are materials made by people long after the events being described had taken place.

A

Secondary Sources

34
Q

Answers concerns and questions pertinent to the authenticity of a historical source by identifying who composed the historical material, locating when and where the historical material was produced, and establishing the material’s evidential value.

A

External Criticism

35
Q

Deals with the credibility and reliability of the content of a given historical source. This kind of criticism focuses on understanding the substance and message that the historical material wants to convey by examine how the
author frame the intent and meaning of a composed material.

A

Internal Criticism

36
Q

There are substantial primary sources about the Philippines here and abroad. In the country, government institutions such as ______________ and the ______________ are major repositories of documentary sources.

A

National Library, and
the National Archives

37
Q

It has a complete microfilm copies of the Philippine Revolutionary Records, compilation of captured documents of Emilio Aguinaldo’s revolutionary government, and Historical Data Papers, a collection of
“history and cultural life” of all towns in the country. =

A

National Library

38
Q

It holds a substantial collection of catalogued and uncatalogued Spanish documents about the Philippines composed from 1552-1900.

A

National Archives

39
Q

a. University of the Philippines
b. Ateneo de Manila University
c. University of Santo Tomas
d. University of San Carlos

are called __________

A

Academic institution

40
Q

a. Ayala Museum
b. Lopez Museum
c. Religious Congregations

are called _________

A

Privately Owned Museum and Archives

41
Q

“History is a Greek word which means, literally, just Investigation”

A

Arnold Toynbee