Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Activity 1
I. Directions: Read each item carefully. Write TRUE if the statement is true; FALSE if false.
Answers must be written on the space provided before the number.
_______1.
TRUE History is the study of past events and their causes.
_______2.
TRUE Historiography is the study of history itself.
_______3.
FALSE Primary Sources are made by using textbooks published in the 1900s as a source
of the Philippine Revolution.
TRUE
_______4. Secondary Sources are usually made by the actors of history while the past
events are happening.
_______5.
TRUE Methodologies are applied by Historians as much as possible to ensure
objectivity.
II. Directions: Read the following statements carefully. Identify what is being described in
the report and write your answers on the space provided before the number.
Historia
_________________1. History came from this Greek word, which means "knowledge acquired
through inquiry."
History
_________________2. It means the account of the past of a person or a group of people through
written documents or historical pieces of evidence.
Historians
_________________3. They believed that history must be backed up by written documents.
_________________4.
Criticism It is the examination of the content of the material as well as its
truthfulness.
External Criticism
_________________5. It is the process of verifying historical pieces of evidence through its
physical characteristics and analyzing its material consistency with the
Period it was produced.