Grade 6 Introduction to History.pptx.pdf

Introduction to History

1. INTRODUCING
HISTORY
GRADE 6 - HISTORY

2. “IF YOU DON’T KNOW HISTORY,
THEN YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING.
YOU ARE A LEAF THAT DOESN’T
KNOW IT is part of a tree.”


-Michael Crichton, author of ‘Jurassic
Park

3. WHAT IS HISTORY ???
The word history means ‘the study of the past’.

It is the story of people and how they have
lived and developed through time.

A timeline of events

4. SO WHAT IS MY TIMELINE ?

6. THE HISTORICAL TIMELINE
PRE- HISTORY
PROTO-HISTORY
HISTORY

7. THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THEM
PRE - HISTORY
Period for which there are no
written records. We entirely rely on
archaeology.
HISTORY
PROTO - HISTORY
Period for which there are few
records but they haven't been
deciphered yet.
Period for which there are records
and they have been completely
deciphered

8. SO WHY DO WE STUDY HISTORY?

10. SOURCES OF
HISTORY

11. SOURCES

13. GUESS WHETHER THE FOLLOWING IS A LITERARY
SOURCE OR AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOURCE
LET'S DO A
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