Ch.1 Historiography-Development In The West

Which method in the physical and natural sciences allows formulating laws that remain true irrespective of the time and space and can be tested and proved repeatedly?

• Research Method

• Traditional Method

• Empirical Method

• Ancient Method

The experts can examine the authenticity of a document by using criteria such as ___________________________________________________.

• lettering style

• author’s style of writing

• manufacturing date

• type of paper

• stamps of authority

What are 3 of the Historical Research Methods?

• Collecting historical information, highlighting the processes that lead to historical transitions, carrying out comparative analysis

• Formulate laws that remain true irrespective of the time and space.

• Formulating hypotheses

• Imaginative Descriptions

• Examining relevant references of the available historical information

What are 3 methods of various disciplines useful in historical research?

• Numismatics (Study of coins)

• Manuscriptology

• Biology

• Numerology

• Epigraphy (Study of inscriptions)

The writing of critical historical narrative is known as ___________________________. A scholar who writes such a narrative is a ______________________.

• Scientology, Scientist

• Historicology, Historian

• HIstoriography, Expert

• Historiography, Historian

Ancient communities all over the world used various means like cave paintings, story-telling, singing songs and ballads, etc. to pass their history to the next generation.

• True

• False

Four main characteristics of modern historiography are:

• Its method is based on scientific principles. It begins with the formation of relevant questions.

• Using various means like cave paintings, story-telling, singing songs and ballads, etc. to prove a historical narrative.

• These questions are anthropocentric. It means that these questions are about the deeds of the members of ancient human societies of a particular period. History does not suggest any interrelation between the Divine and human deeds.

• Answers to these questions are supported by reliable evidence.

• History presents a graph of mankind’s journey with the help of past human deeds.

In 1737 C.E. the _________________ University was founded in Germany which had an independent department of history.

• History University

• Berlin University

• Gottingen University

• Munich University

(a)   (1596-1650) was the foremost among scholars who insisted on verifying the reliability of historical documents by critically examining them.

The following rule is supposed to have a great impact on the scientific method of research : Never to accept anything for true till all grounds of doubt are excluded. Who gave this rule?

• Voltaire

• Karl Marx

• Rene Descartes

• Michel Focault