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AIM: What is History?
DO NOW: Explore the quotes on the worksheet and determine whether they are a positive or negative view of history?
What is History?
History is not just a simple list of facts from the past. It is the way people look at or interpret the meaning of those facts.
Different people will look at the facts in different ways.
History is the study of the past
Interpretation
What’s Included?• Prehistory
• History Before Writing
Writing (800 BC)
Different Methods ?
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484 BCE – ca. 425 BCE)
Thucydides (ca. 460 BCE – ca. 400 BCE)
Used stories told to him from different
cultures to write his books
“The Histories”
Used scientific approach attributing
major events to human choice rather than divine intervention and relied of factual and observations.
Timelines:
End to End
Timeline TermsWHAT IS
BC?• Before Christ•Also called Before the Common Era = BCE
WHAT IS AD?
• After Christ (Ann0 Domini)
• Also called the Common Era = CE
NOW WHERE ARE THEY ON A TIMELINE?
100 AD1 AD
332 BC
500 BC
500 AD
332 BC 100 AD
What About Zero?Where is zero on the timeline?
ZERO
Timeline RulesDates are Earlier From 1 AD
Dates are OlderFrom 1 AD to BC
How to Read a Time Line
Timeline Rules
BC Rule – The Higher the Date the Earlier in Time it is (Oldest). AD Rule – The
Higher the Date the Later in Time it is (Newest).
Timeline Rules
1000
AD
500
AD
500 Years
If in the same time period (AD or BC) You subtract the dates.
Timeline Rules
2000
BC
1000
BC
1000
Years
If in the same time period (AD or BC) You subtract the dates.
Timeline Rules
2000
BC500AD
2500
Years
If NOT in the same time period (AD or BC) You add the dates.
Timeline Rules
332BC
778AD
1110
Years
If NOT in the same time period (AD or BC) You add the dates.
Timeline BasicsWhat is Circa?
Circa means: around or about
Examples: c. 5000BC c. 20,000BCE c. 300AD c. 800CE
The reason why we call it Social Studies is because there are many disciplines (fields) within the Social Sciences.
The Social Sciences
AnthropologyStudy of humankind
Anthropologist
ArchaeologyStudy human society usually from artifacts.
Archaeologist
EconomicsStudy of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Economist
SociologyThe study of society
Sociologist
PhilosophyThe study of social problems
1: Zeno of Citium 2: Epicurus 3: (Federico II of Mantua?) 4: Boethius or Anaximander or Empedocles? 5: Averroes 6: Pythagoras 7: Alcibiades or Alexander the Great? 8: Antisthenes or Xenophon? 9: Hypatia (Francesco Maria della Rovere?) 10: Aeschines or Xenophon? 11: Parmenides? 12: Socrates 13: Heraclitus (Michelangelo) 14: Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) 15: Aristotle 16: Diogenes 17: Plotinus (Donatello?) 18: Euclid or Archimedes with students (Bramante)? 19: Zoroaster 20: Ptolemy? R: Apelles (Raphael) 21: Protogenes (Il Sodoma, Perugino, or Timoteo Viti)
Sociologist