History101 week 2

Saint M. Pizarras 3- BSED-eng Hist101 week 2 Ms.Risonar

Lesson Review
What is history?
The study and the documentation of the past. Events before the invention of writing
systems are considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events
as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and
interpretation of these events.
What is hirstorical research?
Historical research comprises the techniques and guidelines by which historians use
primary sources and other evidence of archaeology, to research and then write histories
in the form of accounts of the past.
What is the purpose of historical research?
To reach insights or conclusions about past persons or occurrences. Historical research
entails more than simply compiling and presenting factual information; it also requires
interpretation of the information.

Learning activities

Activity 1
PRIMIARY SOURCE

Hamilton, Edith. Mythology. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 1942.

SECONDARY SOURCE

Gods Behaving Badly Mythos: The Greek Myths The Mythology Book: Big
book, © 2007 by Marie Retold book © 2017 Ideas Simply Explained
Phillips by Stephen Fry © 2018 Book by Philip
Wilkinson

Activity 2
1. A
2. C
3. A
4. D
5. B
6. D
7. B
8. C
9. A
10. C
Activity 3
History101 week 2

Table completion
Artifcat Sociofact Mentifact

This artefact is related to This is To honour the

the key to understanding
Egyptian hieroglyphs
The Rosetta Stone
Egyptian pharaoh and it
contains inscriptions that
enabled scholars to learn
how to read hieroglyphs
that were previously
indecipherable