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History
AP
SAT
World History
US History
European History

Study Smart
Question : History is?
1.Repetition & Pattern

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me three times, shame on
both of us.
Stephen King,
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

2.History is who I am (we are)

From Harvard Lecture Justice

- By Michael Sandel

The narrative conception of the self

I inherit from the past of my family,

my city, my tribe, my nation a varie
ty of debts, inheritances, expectati
ons, and obligations. These constit
ute the given of my life, my moral s
tarting point.

3.History is news and forecast

History with Alan

Meta History
Meta?

Meta Cognition
= Ideas about ideas

Meta Research
= Researches about Research
a prefix added to the name of a sub
ject.that analyzes the original on
e (attached to Meta) but at a higher
level

Meta History For Beginners

AP & SAT History is?
1. Objective v. Subjective
a) Objective Facts (MCQ)
b) Subjective (but logical & plausibl
e) Interpretation (FRQ)
2. TPO - Time / Place / Occasion
- When/where/what/(How)
-) Latitude and Longitude

Meta History Formulae?

1.Cause and effect (To be fixed)
- North South problem
- (Re)Discovery of the Americas
- Marshall plan
2.Text v. Context
- Facts v. Historical context
3.Dependence & Independence
- North South Problem

Meta History Formulae? (cont.)

4.Right and Responsibility
- Noblesse Oblige
- Power tends to corrupt and absolut
e power corrupts absolutely
- Lord Acton
- No taxation without representation
- The Boston Tea Party
- American Revolution

5.Course of History 1

5.Course of History 2

6.Dialectic Method 1 (Antagonism)

6.Dialectic Method 2 (Antagonism)

6.Dialectic Method 3 (Antagonism)

- Ancien Regime v. French Revolution
- Napoleon v. Metternich
Frederick Douglass (19c)
If there is no struggle,
there is no progress.
Those who profess to
favor freedom and yet
deprecate agitation, are
men who want crops
without plowing up the
ground.

7.Superordinate Goal 1
Combating Prejudice : Contact Theor
y
The Robbers Cave Experiment
- 22 twelve-year-old boys
- Internal social hierarchies made
An Integration Phase
- tasks that required cooperation betwe
en the two groups.
- a water shortage problem, a "broken d
own" camp truck that needed enoug

7.Superordinate Goal 2
~ Relevant Terms? And Events?
-

Enemy of enemy friend is?

Womens enemy is?
Japan : Hideyoshi & Hirobumi
Napoleon v. Metternich
Ping-pong diplomacy : US & China
China v. Vietnam v. US

Divide and Rule

- gaining and maintaining power by brea
king up larger concentrations of power i
nto pieces

8.Exception That Prove the (opposit

e) Rule Mongolia
- The exception [that] proves the rul
e" also means that the presence o
f an exception applying to a specif
ic case establishes "proves that a
general rule exists.
- "parking prohibited on Sundays" (t
he exception) "proves" ???

The Von Restorff effect

- a bias in favour of remembering th
e unusual

From Meta History

To Meta Study
Knowing Is Getting Hurt

Knowledge Is Power by Bacon

vs
Ignorance Is Power by Big Brother

From Meta History

To Meta Study
Knowing Is Getting Hurt

Knowledge Is Power by Bacon

vs
Ignorance Is Power by Big Brother

How to memorize
Mnemonic Systems
- From short-term to long-term
1) Vivid Visualization
2) Strong Emotions
3) Absurd Image
4) Meaning and systems (even arbitraril
y)
The Von Restorff Effect
- a bias in favour of remembering the un

Case study Studying History

From Meta History To Meta Study

1.Chunking

03010815062503150419051610261212
0301/0815/0625/0315/0419/0516/1026/1212

2.Key-word Method

1) Balfour Declaration vs
~ Israel v. Palestine
2) 1919/15921492

3.Roman Numerals
I

10

50

100

500 1,000

Year 1600 (MDC=1,000+500+100)

~ William Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- The Merchant of Venice (MD= )

1600

Shakespeare = Bacon?
Bacon = Enlightenment
Protestant Reformation
(1500s; Martin Luther)
Heliocentric theory (Galilei : 1564-1642)
Enlightenment begins (1700s)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (MDC)
- Don Quixote (Q~K~C)

From Meta History

To Meta Study
4.Elaboration & Deep Processing

- 2 Times more effort Effect

- Putting < Retrieving

Study the context & research the r

easons behind the fact.
We Remember Things We Spend More
Cognitive Time & Energy Processing M
ore Likely to Be Recalled.

Deeply Processed Information - Sample

4c -

Deeply Processed Information

5c -

Deeply Processed Information

6c

Seoul

Globalization

Central
Government

Spice
War

FTA

Conflict

Sports Event

Meter

War

Korean
Wave