Introduction to history
- Created by: Chloe Lim Min
- Created on: 21-03-13 05:26
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- Chapter 1: Introduction to History
- What is history?
- Record of stories of past events
- Study of past human events
- Shaped the way the world is today
- There are 2 patterns that historians look for when reconstructing the past
- Common features
- Change and continuity in features over time
- Why study History?
- Helps us understand change
- Helps us to understand how the society came to be
- Learn from past success and failures
- Helps us to understand and respect one another
- Develops critical and analytical skills
- The past
- Occurred portion of time
- Everything that has existed
- Words and deeds but no organized story
- Remnants that have survived over time
- Archeology
- Scientific study of how people lived based on things left behind
- Archeologists carry out studies by examining objects made, used or changed people in the past.
- These objects are called artifacts
- Scientific study of how people lived based on things left behind
- What is history?
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