FINAL EXTENSION HISTORY QUIZ

Who sought to construct objective history, as a linear timeline of accepted and verified events?

• Herodotus

• Gibbon

• Von Ranke

• Simon Schama

How will you define History? Perhaps History is the interpretative study of past...., peoples, and societies. (Hint: begins with e!)

Match the Schools of History to their contribution

• Postmodernists

• Use dialectical materialism to analyse the past

• Postmodernist Foucault

• Rejected overarching narratives (including Marxism)

• Marxists

• Importance of language as an expression of power structures

• Annales: Bloch and Febvre

• Indigenous Australians

• Oral historians

• Interdisciplinary, long term perspective, social structures

The Grand Narratives! Who saw history as a series of class conflicts, culminating in communism?

• Marxists

• Feminists

• Post modernists

T or F: The Whig Historian Macauley conceptualised history as an explanation of the rise of the British Empire.

• True

• False

Medieval Historian's narrative was of God's role in (and control of) the world. Who was a medieval historian?

• Mary Beard

• The Venerable Bede

• Ben McNeil

What BEST describes a new wave feminist narrative?

• A form of social history

• Influenced by Marxist notions of conflict

• A study of women's oppression and disempowerment

In 2020, Edward Colston's statute in Bristol was removed. Place statute removal events in order.

• Edward Colson,

  Bristol

• Carmack, Tennessee

• James Cook, Queensland.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Post modernists/ Structuralists

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(b) Marxists

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(c) Annales School

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(d) Indigenous Rights!

• Eric Hobsbawm

• Michael Foucault

• Bloch

• Simon Schama

• Christopher Hill

• Bruce Pascoe

• George Rude

• Febvre

• Mary Beard

• Henry Reynolds

How has the nature and role of History changed? (HInt: Make your starting point Von Ranke,
as a recognised discipline based on a clear methodology, then use the rise of Marxism - economic and social history Annales/Ringelblum Archive, feminism, and film - Oppenheimer! democratisation to justify its increasing inclusivity, breadth, and diversity.