TOK : History as an area of knowledge

What makes historians different from scientists, artists and mathematicians?

• they mould the past

• they reshape the future

• they analyse the past

• understand the past and future

What is the major task for historians?

• interpret the past

• justify the past

• understand the past

• correct the past

what would a historian not need while studying the past?

• access to records

• sources and artefacts

• analyse significance of evidence

• justification of the evidence

The aim of a tok student while studying history as an area of knowledge is to understand how knowledge is produced in history

• Yes

• No

which one is not a criteria that would be considered when determining when events are historical or not?

• events should have affected a large number of people

• events should have produced consequences in the social context in one way or another

• events should have produced great changes in the historical context or a later date

• events should involve individual people

is empathy important in the production of knowledge in history?

• Yes

• No

One is not a reason why empathy important in production of knowledge in history?

• to avoid biases

• to abstain from judgement

• a way of taking perspectives

• a way of being sympathetic

which of the above is not an aspecct of ethics in History as an AOK

• presentisim

• causal links

• ethical knowledge production