Readings on Philippine History Midterms

Acceptance of history is a matter of personal choice based on emotion, feeling, or convenience.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Acceptance of history is a NOT matter of personal choice based on emotion, feeling, or convenience.

This refers to the theory and history of historical writing.

Ways of how historical events are recorded.

The etymology of the word "history" is derived from the ____ word historia, which is also derived from the ____ word that means ___.

• Greek, Latin, knowledge

• Latin, Greek, to know

• Greek, Latin, curiosity

• Latin, Greek, knowledge

A person who studies and writes about the past with the use of verified historical sources is called ___.

A ______ documents historical events and ensures the validity and reliability of different sources.

• Fact-checker

• Anthropologist

• Historians

• Critical thinking person

He is knows as the "Father of History"

• Aristotle

• Herodutus

• Hercules

• Plato

The book _____ is Herodotus' greatest contribution to history. This also gives the narratives on what transpired during the Greco-Persian Wards.

• Historography

• The Histories

• A Glimpse of the Past

• Recorded Timeline

Leopold von Ranke was given the title _________ for his scientific method in writing history.

• Founder of Modern Source-Based History

• Founder of the Scientific Method

• Father of History

• Father of Recording History

Colonization made the “barbaric” colonies to become civilized.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

This is false. This claim is being debunked by the Post-colonialism school of Thought.