Historiography Quiz

Who is regarded as the father of history?

• Thucydides

• Herodotus

• Sallust

• Livy

Which Islamic historian is known as the first sociologist of history?

• Al-Waqidi

• Ibn al-Zubayr

• Ibn Khaldun

• Al-Tabari

Which Chinese historian wrote the 'Historical Records'?

• Ban Gu

• Fan Ye

• Ban Zhao

• Sima Qian

Who wrote the 'Muqaddimah' and is considered the first sociologist of history?

• Al-Baladhuri

• Al-Masudi

• Ibn al-Athir

• Ibn Khaldun

Which Roman historian wrote about the Peloponnesian War?

• Livy

• Julius Caesar

• Sallust

• Thucydides

Who was among the classical authors rediscovered fully by the humanists?

• Isaac Newton

• Cicero

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Sigmund Freud

Which German historian was profoundly influenced by the views of Guicciardini?

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Karl Marx

• Leopold Von Ranke

Who authored 'The Decline of the West' and had a pessimistic view of history?

• Antonio Gramsci

• Oswald Spengler

• E.P. Thompson

• Fernand Braudel

Which school of historiography emphasized long-term social history and 'histoire totale'?

• Labor History

• Postcolonial Studies

• Annales School

• Marxist School

Who founded the Subaltern School of Indian Historiography?

• Homi K. Bhabha

• Edward Said

• Ranjit Guha

• Gayatri Spivak