PRELIMS Flashcards
The study of the past.
History
It refers to the time period after the invention of written records in a given culture or society.
Another definition of HISTORY
Greek word ________ which means “knowledge acquired through inquiry or systematic study”
Historia
An act of asking for information
Inquiry
A formal inquiry or systematic study.
Investigation
Some historians live by the mantra “no document, no history”. What does it mean?
When an event is not translated into a written document it will not be considered as a historical fact.
What are the sources of Traditional Historians?
Government records
Chronicler’s accounts
Personal letters
Whose sources are these:
Written Records
Songs
Artifacts
Architecture
Interviews
Progressive Historians
Define historiography.
it is the history of history. Important for someone who studies history as it teaches the student to be critical.
History: The Past, Historiography: how a certain text was written. True or False?
True.
An expert in history.
Historian
The Annales School of History
An institution that was concerned with social history and studied historical periods longer.
What were the disciplines that was combined to history by the Annales School of History?
History of Peasantry, Medicine, and Environment.
Ancient Filipinos shared their stories through ______ and ______.
communal songs and epic
The most important tools for an historian.
Historical sources.
The classification of sources depends on the historical subject being studied not on the time period when the source was produced. True or False?
True
Classification of sources
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary
Sources produced at the same time as the event, period, or subject being studied.
Primary Sources
Examples of primary sources.
Minutes of the convention
records of convention
the draft of the constitution
photographs of the event
Sources which were produced by an author who used primary sources to produce the material.
Secondary Sources
Example of secondary sources
Books that uses primary sources
It summarizes the secondary sources.
Tertiary Sources
Practice of verifying the authenticity of evidence by examining its physical characteristics such as the quality of paper, type of ink, language ad words used in the material.
External Criticism
Examination of the truthfulness of the evidence by validating historical sources.
Internal Criticism
