History vs. Pre-history

Understanding history: History vs. Prehistory; why study history?

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Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy
Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7115
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Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy
Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7115
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History vs. Prehistory
Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy
Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7000
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History - can be explained as a record of the events that happened in the past.
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Prehistory - does not
record the
happenings due to the
fact that there were no
recording facilities
available in the period
implied by the word

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Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy
Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7115
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Gave rise to words such as prehistoric man and
prehistoric period.
Term used to denote the time period before recorded
history.
Historians and geologists use the word ‘prehistory’ to
denote the period of time since the beginning of the
universe and since life began on the planet Earth.
It was also used to denote the time since human existence
began.
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Prehistory

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Prehistory
Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy
Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7115
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It is important to note that prehistory is characterized by the three-age
system.
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1.the Stone Age,
2.the Bronze Age
3.the Iron Age.
These three ages are characterized
by the types of tools used, and the
materials used in the making of these
tools.
Written records almost do not exist
in the case of pre-history

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History
Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy
Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7115
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History depends on written
source.
It is a recorded set of events that
might have happened during a
particular period of time.
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History can be called the study of
human past.
It heavily relies on writing hence,
it could also mean that time
period after writing was
invented.

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History as a Social Science & Its Relation
to Other Fields of Discipline
Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy
Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7115
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Social science 
Its Relation to Other Fields of Discipline
main social sciences (anthropology, economics, 
political science, psychology and sociology).
amongst its branches, some fields in the humanities (
anthropology, archaeology, history, law and linguistics).
is a major branch of science, and a major category of 
academic disciplines,
is concerned with society and the relationships among
individuals within a society.

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Sources of Historical Data
Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy
Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7115
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A source is anything that has been left behind by the past.
It might be a document, a building, a picture or a piece of ephemera
(things that exist, used or enjoyed for only a short time – e.g. a train
ticket, a plastic cup, etc).
They are called 'sources' because they provide us with information
which can add to the sum of our knowledge of the past.
Sources only become historical evidence, however, when they are
used by a historian to make a point.
What they are evidence of will depend on what the historian is
trying to say.
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Historical Method (HM)
Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy
Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7115
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Comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use 
primary sources and other evidence, including the evidence of 
archaeology, to research and then to write histories in the form of
accounts of the past.
The question of the nature, and even the possibility, of a sound
historical method is raised in the philosophy of history as a question
of epistemology.
The study of historical method and of different ways of writing
history is known as historiography
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HM: Source Criticism
Valles-ville, Fatima Liloy
Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines, 7115
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Garraghan divides source criticism into six inquiries:
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1.When was the source, written or unwritten, produced (date)?
2.Where was it produced (localization)?
3.By whom was it produced (authorship)?
4.From what pre-existing material was it produced (analysis)?
5.In what original form was it produced (integrity)?
6.What is the evidential value of its contents (credibility)?
1-4 are known as higher criticism; 5 is lower criticism; and together
(1-5) are called external criticism.
6 is called internal criticism.
Together, this inquiry is known as  source criticism.

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