PPT-How Historians Study the Past

Chapter 1 Lesson 4 Final Lesson Objective To learn what methods historians use to study the past What approaches do Historians use to examine past events Find patterns in past events Look for causes and effects that explain how and why events happened. Culture Historians use a variety of methods to help them answer questions about what happened in the past Culture Historians examine evidence and draw conclusions as they answer historical questions Understanding the Past ESSENTIAL QUESTION What que History studies the development of Human Societies. What do Historians Study?. Historians study the development of human societies; in other words how groups of human beings evolved from the earliest times to the present. How Historians Work. Historiography. Ideas and methods that historians use to research and present history. Like detectives investigating modern day crimes…. Evidence. Sources. Historians look for evidence to answer questions. MTL TPTL MITL MTLF TPTLF MTL+Past MITL+Past interval-basedsemantics MTL TPTL MITL MTLF TPTLF MTL+Past MITL+Past pointwisesemantics Figure1:Summaryofourexpressivenessresults(dashededgesindicatefolkresu Lecture 1: . What is . h. istoriography and why is it important? . 2 meanings of ‘historiography’: . It . can describe the body of work written on a specific topic. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches. Scholars discuss historiography topically – such as the .  . Introduction. Assessment. Basic Knowledge Pre Test. Continents and Oceans Test. Timeline assignment. Quiz. 1. North America, 2. South America, 3. Africa, 4. Europe, 5. Asia, 6. Antarctica, 7. Australia . History. Why does your past matter?. How good is your memory? How reliable is it?. You take photos, you keep a diary; what do you include, what do you omit?. Would you be more inclined to trust an autobiography or a biography of the same individual written by a historian?. What You Will Learn…. In this chapter you will learn how historians study the ancient world to unlock the mysteries of the past. In this photo a diver examines an ancient jar off the coast of Israel.. L/O – To explore how historians find out about the past and decide why evidence is so important. Starter. – In your books, brainstorm ways in which we can find out about the past. Doing History: Using Evidence. Where does our information come from?. Archaeological evidence. Remains of people & animals. Artifacts (human-made objects). Oral history (history that is passed on without being written down). Primary documents. Warm Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =-QopdZ7G8ww Who was to blame for the breakdown of the Grand Alliance? L/O – To discuss and evaluate the role played by various factors in the outbreak of the Cold War How do Archaeologists ANALYZE DATA and ARTIFACTS?. History. What TOOLS do historians use to unlock the secrets of the past?. Artifacts. Primary sources. Secondary Sources. Once all of the tools to unlocking the past have been collected and analyzed, how do historians DRAW CONCLUSIONS about the past?. h. istoriography and why is it important? . What we’ll do. Analyse pioneers of historical approaches. What have historians . seen . as important to study?. How have they gone about studying it?. What are the benefits and costs of the approach?. 1 The Job of the Historian. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN. At the end of this chapter you should understand .... What is history?. The work of the historian and the use of historical methods.. Different types of sources and evidence..