RPH Quiz 1

History comes from the Greek word historia meaning...

• Account of the past of a person or a group of people through written documents and historical evidence.

• Knowledge acquired through inquiry or investigation.

Father of Scientific History. His Magnum Opus was the History of the Peloponnesian War.

• Herodotus

• Timaeus

• Thucydides.

• Theopompus

It is an essential philosophy that would serve as a vital anchor of the scientific method.

• Positivism

• Historiography

• Socratic Method

• Historicism

He argued that the task of the historian is neither to guard certain values nor to judge certain pasts.

“merely to show how things actually were."

• Julius Caesar

• Quintus Curtius Rufus

• Leopold von Ranke

It is the period when Christianity and the Church became the most powerful institutions, history ceased to be a record of man's deeds.

• Classical Era

• Medieval Era

• Early Modern Era

• Contemporary Era

A fact from the past is anything that happened in the past.

• Historical Fact

• Historical Source

• Facts from the Past

• Historical research and methodology

It consists of certain techniques and rules that historians follow to properly collect and select sources and historical evidence.

• Historical Fact

• Historical Source

• Facts from the Past

• Historical methodology

Originally, what kind of history does historians interested in?

• Political history

• Social history

• Women's history

We acquire historical knowledge through ______ .

• historical skills

• historical knowledge

• historical sources

Who are historians?

• revels in amazement about our fascinating past

• asking relevant historical questions and answering them through rigorous historical perspective

• asking relevant historical questions and answering them through rigorous historical perspective