Prelim Flashcards
Different views on history
Cyclical (Fatalist)
Evolutionary
Providential
Deterministic
History just keeps repeating itself – it’s not going anywhere – it’s not heading for a conclusion of any kind; or rather there are many conclusions and then it begins all over again.
Cyclical
Cyclical view believers
Mayans, Aztecs, Hindus, Buddhists – most eastern religions
History, because of purely natural forces, is evolving. The theory of evolution rests on the belief that random forces can create improvements in animals, man, and also the world.
Evolutionary
a system of thought based entirely on Evolutionary view
Communism
Free will is an illusion. All (every single detail) is determined by God or some kind of supreme power or creative force. There is no chance or free will. Rather every event that is to come is completely inevitable.
Albert Einstein’s view and some other classical scientists
Deterministic
This is the basic Judeo-Christian view. Like all great stories, history has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It has a climax (the cross and resurrection) and is being drawn toward a particular conclusion (the return of Christ)by an author-Creator.
Providential
protagonist and antagonist of providential view
Jesus
Satan
is the genuine gift of God to his creatures, but God is so huge, intelligent, and powerful, that He is able to shape the outcome according to His purposes while incorporating our authentically free decisions into His plans.
Free will
Branches of History
Archaeology Art History Chronology Cultural History History of Science Economic History Environmental History Futurology History Painting Military History Naval History Paleography Political History Psychohistory Social History World History
History and Political Science
History is very helpful to politics because the political aspect is a part of the whole range of activity recorded by historian and knowledge of history would enable the politicians to know the politics better and play their role effectively
“History without political science has no___ and political science without history has no ___.”
fruit
root
History and Economics
Activities of man in society are very closely related with the economic matters. Economic history of any period is important and its understanding is absolutely essential for the proper understanding of history of any period.
History and Sociology
Sociology is helping history to study ‘social dynamics’ which is a study not of society at rest but constantly in social change and development social processes and social causation are giving a new perspective to history.
History and Ethics
History uses Ethics to understand the ethical principle of the time which influenced the conduct of the people in the past.
History and Geography
Geography is one of the eyes of history the other eye being chronology. Time and space factors give history its correct perspective.
Names of the Philippines through time
Ma-i Las Islas de San Lazaro Las Islas de Poniente Ilhas Do Oriente Republica Filipina Las Islas Filipinas Philippine Islands Philippines
According to the ___________________ written around __________ during the ______ dynasty, there was a group of islands found in __________ called ______. The islands groups were later invaded and renamed and identified by the Spanish to be the island of ________.
Zhao Rugua's Zhufan zhi 1225 AD Song southern South China Sea Ma-i Mindoro
This was further proved by ____________ in his 1882 book, ________________ that Ma-i, which means __________ was the Chinese local name of present-day Mindoro.
Ferdinand Blumentritt
Versuch einer Ethnographie der Philippinen (An Attempt to the Study of Ethnography of the Philippines)
“country of the Blacks”
On the other hand, historians claimed that Ma-i was not an island, but all the south of South Sea islands groups and ______________ and in constant contact with the China Government as early as the_________and earlier.
Manila itself, which was known to be the Chinese settlements
9th century CE
Named by_________ in _____ when he reached the islands of _______ in the island of_______ on the feast day of Saint Lazarus of _______.
Answer: Islas de San Lazaro (San Lorenzo's Islands) Ferdinand Magellan 1521 Homonhon Samar Bethany
Named by __________in _____ to Samar and ___, honoring the Prince of _______, the then Philip II of Spain.
Answer: Las Islas Filipinas (Philippine Islands belonging to Philip)
Ruy López de Villalobos
1543
Leyte
Asturias
Another name from Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 when he learned that the Las islas de San Lázaro also included ______ and Leyte islands.
However, various sources claimed that Magellan was not the one who renamed the area, but his ______ instead. The name came from the fact that the islands were reached from Spain en route approaching the___ part of the globe.
Cebu
chroniclers
left
Conversely, the _______ called the archipelago Ilhas do oriente (Islands to the East) because they approached the islands from the _____ of Portugal in late ____s.
Portuguese
east
1540
During the Philippine Revolution, the state officially called itself ____________, now referred to as the ________________.
“República Filipina”
First Philippine Republic
