Studying the Past Lessons

Studying the past

• PAST= before

• PRESENT = now

• FUTURE = after

TIME

• SECONDS

• MINUTES

• HOURS

CLOCKS

• DAYS

• WEEKS

• MONTHS

• YEARS

​​CALENDARS

• ​DECADE =10 years

• CENTURY = 100 years

• MILLENIUM = 1000 years

​​LONGER PERIODS

How do we measure the time?

• Objects (objetos)

• Buildings (edificios, construcciones)

Physical

• Image or video

• Paintings, pictures, films, photos, maps.

(Pinturas, dibujos, fotos, películas, mapas...)

Graphic

Testimonies (testimonios), stories (historias),

tales (cuentos),

​legends (leyendas),

myths (mitos),

songs (canciones)

​​Oral

Documents or written message ​(documetos o mensajes escritos)

Books (libros)

Letters (cartas)

Newspapers (periódicos)

​​Written

​HISTORICAL SOURCES

• ​The longest period (el más largo)

• Start: first human beings

• End: when people began to write

• (De los primeros seres humanos a la escritura)

PREHISTORY

• Start: people started to write

• Four main periods (next slide)

• BC= before year 1 (antes del año 1)

• AD = after year 1 (después del año 1)

​​HISTORY

​HISTORICAL PERIODS

Start: when people began to write, 3000 BC.

https://youtu.be/k544jQEleQM

ANCIENT HISTORY

Start: with the fall of the Roman Empire (comienza con la caída del imperio romano).

https://youtu.be/yHughcfloZM

THE MIDDLE AGES

​Start: with Christopher Columbus's arrival to America (AD 1492)

https://youtu.be/MHlfzBNnhqI

https://youtu.be/tWQkKp0Kivk

THE MODERN AGE

​Start: French Revolution (AD 1789).

Continues to teh present.

https://youtu.be/IIDfZ-8o4jE

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

​HISTORY