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

_______________________ (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