HIST 601 Theory and Historiography

What Greek historian participated in the Peloponnesian War and created a chronological historical order of events using seasons?

• Thucydides

• Herodotus

• Xerxes

• Tacitus

What historian traced Rome's rise to power and found a cyclical explanation for how governments developed?

• Tacitus

• Tiberius

• Polybius

• Ptolemy

Salvation history can be described as

• chronological

• dialectical

• cyclical

• teleologial

Augustine of Hippo's work _______ exemplified the problem of associating a religion with a singular place.

• City of God

• The Book of Jeremiah

• Ecclesiastical History of the English People

• Muqaddima

This historian used external text criticism, internal text criticism, and the concept of anachronism to prove the Donation of Constantine was fake

• Machiavelli

• Giambattista Vico

• Leonardo Bruni

• Lorenzo Valla

Immanuel Kant's notion of idealism is dependent on

• society

• the mind

• reality

• tyche

What aspect of capitalistic society did Marx determine as the most harmful to life?

• capital

• politics

• freedom

• labor

This American historian's theory of the frontier was influential in expanding a nationalistic history in the United States

• Herbert Baxter Adams

• Carl L. Becker

• Frederick Jackson Turner

• Charles A. Beard

Post-Structuralism states that

• There is a code to understanding the human condition

• Languages and cultures inform our understanding of society

• Written and spoken words are a code to universal truth

• Due to our own biases we cannot decipher a universal code to understand the human condition

What historian explored the concept of imperialism in his book Orientalism?

• Michel Foucault

• Homi Bhabha

• Edward Said

• Jacques Derrida