SOURCE OF HISTORY

Question 1

Sourced from artifacts that have been left by the past.

Answer 1

HISTORICAL DATA

Question 2

Chronicles or tracts designed to convey a message and the motives behind their composition.

Answer 2

NARRATIVE OR LITERARY

Question 2

3 WRITTEN SOURCE

Answer 2

• Narrative or Literary
• Diplomatic or Judicial
• Social Documents

Question 3

Document or record and existing legal situation or create a new one. Kind of sources that professional historians once treated as purest,
“best” source.

Answer 3

DIPLOMATIC OR JUDICIAL

Question 3

Archaeological Evidence: Includes artistic creations such as pottery, jewelry, and graves.

Answer 3

Material Evidence

Question 3

Historical accounts conveyed through tales, sagas, folk songs, and popular rituals.

Answer 3

Oral Evidence

Question 3

NON WRITTEN SOURCE

Answer 3

• Material Evidence
• Oral Evidence

Question 4

Administrative Records: Documents related to economic, social, political, and judicial significance maintained by bureaucracies.

Answer 4

Social Documents

Question 5

Original, first-hand accounts written close to the event, providing factual information.

Answer 5

Direct/Primary Sources

Examples: Diaries, journals, newspapers, government records, interviews, novels, stories, and drawings.

-Significance: Offer unfiltered access to artistic, social, scientific, and political thought, giving a personal sense of the time.

Limitations: Often incomplete and lacking context; require prior knowledge and comparison with multiple sources.

Study Approach: Moves from concrete observations and facts to questioning and making inferences about the materials.

Question 6

Second-hand information made long after the events described had taken place.

Answer 6

Indirect or Secondary Sources

Examples: biographies, histories, art and theater reviews.

Can provide analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or evaluation of the original information.

Best for uncovering background or historical information on a topic; broaden our understanding by exposing to others’ perspectives, interpretations, and conclusions.

Get expert views of events and bring multiple primary sources together.

Reliability and validity are open to question and often do not provide exact information.

Do not represent firsthand knowledge.