How can history be compared to a jigsaw puzzle?

Each piece represents an event, issue, or person

Each piece represents a different country

Each piece represents a different time period

Each piece represents a different historian

What is the role of a historian when analyzing historical sources?

To question everything and ensure a balanced evaluation

To accept everything at face value

To ignore contradictory sources

To create new historical events

What are primary sources?

Objects and documents created or written in the period that the historian is investigating

Reconstructions of the past created by people after the time period being studied

Articles, websites, and documentaries

Models, timelines, and computer games

Which of the following is an example of a secondary source?

A documentary about Martin Luther King Jr's fight for civil rights

A film clip of Martin Luther King Jr's 'I Have a Dream' speech

A letter written during the Civil War

A newspaper article from the 1960s

What are written primary sources?

Letters, newspapers, songs, and poetry

Reconstructions of the past created by people after the time period being studied

Models, timelines, and computer games

Articles, websites, and documentaries

What are archaeological sources?

Objects made or changed by humans, such as artefacts

Letters, newspapers, songs, and poetry

Articles, websites, and documentaries

Models, timelines, and computer games

What is one of the critical analysis questions historians ask about historical sources?

What is the message (what is the creator trying to tell us)?

What is the length of the source?

What is the color of the source?

What is the price of the source?

Why is it important for historians to be respectful of the cultures and people groups that sources originate from?

To ensure their research recognises the work of other historians

To make the sources look more interesting

To increase the length of their research

What is one of the purposes of using evidence in historical research?

To present a clear unbiased picture

What is one of the historical contexts historians consider when evaluating sources?

What was happening at the time the source was created?

What is the color of the source?

What is the price of the source?

What is the length of the source?

What is the significance of using a wide range of sources to research historical figures like Hitler?

It provides a more accurate and comprehensive representation.

It simplifies the research process.

It eliminates the need for primary sources.

It focuses only on positive aspects.

What does the propaganda poster from the USA in the 1940s depict Hitler as?

A merciless dictator to be feared and hated.

What does the propaganda poster from Germany in the 1930s depict Hitler as?

A brave and powerful leader who loves his country.

A merciless dictator to be feared and hated.

What does empathy allow historians to do?

Understand and appreciate what people experienced in the past

How do historians gain perspective?

By reading diaries of individuals and visiting museums or historical sites

By imagining themselves in the past

By conducting scientific experiments

What is the relationship between empathy and perspective in historical studies?

Empathy helps historians understand the motives behind actions, while perspective helps them understand the past through the points of view of people who lived through these events

Empathy is unrelated to perspective

Empathy and perspective are the same concept

Perspective is more important than empathy

Why is it difficult to understand the actions of people from the past?

Because we judge them from our contemporary mindsets

Because historical records are incomplete

Because people in the past were irrational

Because historians lack imagination

What does the concept of continuity refer to in historical studies?

Events that endure and remain relatively unchanged over time

Sudden changes in political leadership

Which of the following is an example of change in history?

A sudden change in political leadership

Events that remain constant over time

What is the significance of comparing historical events that occur at the same time?

To understand the sequence of events

To identify isolated communities

What is the historical concept of cause and effect used to examine?

Relationships between historical events, issues, and people

The geographical locations of historical events

The economic impact of historical events

The technological advancements in history

What is the primary role of historians when they place historical significance upon events, issues, or people of the past?

To critically evaluate the information they have researched and analyzed

To memorize all historical events

To focus only on local historical events

Why is it virtually impossible for historians to learn or study all of history?

Because history is not important

Because there are no reliable sources

Because history is only about wars

What must historians be able to justify when evaluating the information they have gathered?

Why it is of historical significance to a larger audience

Why they chose a particular source

Why they ignored primary sources

Why they focused on local events

What does the term "significance" mean in the context of history?

The importance assigned to particular aspects of the past

The memorization of historical dates

The collection of historical artifacts

The writing of historical novels

Why do historians try to build up a picture of the ideas and beliefs of people in the past?

To understand how their lives were shaped by other people and events

To compare them with modern ideas

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