RPH Flashcards
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- derived from the Greek word “historia” which means “learning by inquiry
- accounts of phenomena, human affairs in chronological order
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history
2
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- individuals who write about history
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historians
3
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- practice of historical writing
- traditional method of doing historical research
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histography
4
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- presents the basic and plain information to the reader with the emphasis of ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘where’ of history
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factual history
5
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- goes beyond dates, places, persons, events because it attempts to explain the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of history
- causes and effects
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speculative history
6
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- whole history of the past
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history as actuality
7
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- surviving records
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history as record
8
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- study of history is a ______ as documents and relics are scattered and do not go together comprise the total object that the historian is studying
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subjective process
9
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- truth, authenticity, plausibility
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versimilitude
10
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- the process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survival from the past
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historical method
11
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- the imaginative reconstruction of the past form the data derived by that process
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historiography
12
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- also an important element of historical method. Through this, historians:
(1) select the subject to investigate
(2) collect probable sources of information on the subject
(3) examine the sources’ genuineness, in part of in whole
(4) extract credible ‘particulars’ form the sources.
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historical analysis
13
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- is the ability to understand the past through some meaningful, evocative and convincing historical or cross-disciplinary connections between a given historical issue and other historical contexts, period, or
themes.
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synthesis and analysis
