SS 1C - 1 History
 History synthesizes knowledge from
Lesson 1 – HISTORY
HISTORY
 It is a branch of Social Sciences that deals
with the systematic study of the past, a
branch of knowledge that records and
explains past events and which concerns
people and human nature.
 Historia (Spanish)
 Historie (French)
 Gesichte (German)
 Greek noun Historie or Historia
o Learning, inquiry or investigation
o Used by the Greek Philosopher
Aristotle.
 Kasaysayan (Filipino)
o Salaysay – narrative or a story
o Saysay – meaning
 Without both, you cannot
have true history. (Ambeth
Ocampo, 2014)
HISTORIOGRAPHY
 It refers to the study of history itself.
 It analyzes who is the history writer, the
motives of the writer, the sources of the
writer, theories applied and other historical
records.
ELEMENTS OF HISTORY:
 The Historian
 Place
 Period
 Sources
NATURE OF HISTORY AS AN ACADEMIC
DISCIPLINE
 History has no subject matter of its own
o Covers all the persons and all events
that have happened in the past.
o Cover everything that has happened in
the society including all aspects from
political, economic, social, culture.
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other fields
o Analyzes the relations of different
events, their cause and effects using
also the knowledge used in other fields
of Social Sciences such as
Anthropology, Sociology, Economics,
etc.
 History illuminates’ pieces of the past
o Provides explanation of things that
happened in the past.
o By looking at the relationships of
different events and phenomena, it
provides explanations for unexplainable
gaps.
 History is constantly changing
o An historian makes an analysis based
only on available sources of data.
o When new data are discovered,
previous historical accounts can be
changed.
HISTORY IN RELATION TO OTHER SOCIAL
SCIENCES
 Archaeology
o Scientific study of material remains of
past human life and activities.
o Through investigations of artifacts, the
historian can draw important analysis
and interpretation for them and make
description of the lives and culture of
people that owned the artifacts.
o Archeologist
 Anthropology
o The study of human beings and their
ancestors through time and space and
in relation to physical character,
environmental and social relation, and
culture.
o Anthropologist
o
IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY OF HISTORY
 It provides us with the capacity to analyze
previous events and phenomena which
therefore will provide us with proper basis
on how to view the present and the future.
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 Will provide us with a strong basis for
providing answers for problems that
pervades at present.
 Our historical view will in itself provide us
with the manner by which we view the
present and how we prepare for the future.

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 To know about the roots of our current
culture.
 To learn about human nature by looking at
the trend that repeat through history.
 To learn about mistakes of those who have
gone before us.
Ambeth Ocampo
 History can be a mere narrative of past
events, while kasaysayan is not just a
narrative or salaysay – it must have saysay
or meaning.
 Saysay gives us a way or looking at the
world, a Filipino viewpoint that influences
the way we see the past, the present, and
hopefully the future.
 History is making people see their past,
thereby giving them a sense of being
Filipinos.
 If memory gives us our individual identities,
then history will contribute to a national
memory and eventually national identity.

HISTORY DOES NOT REPEAT ITSELF; WE

REPEAT HISTORY.

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