Lesson 2: SOURCES OF HISTORICAL DATA

Question 1

Are sourced from artifacts that have been left by the past.

Answer 1

Historical data

Question 2

Artifacts left by the past includes?

Answer 2

Relics or remains, or the testimonies of witnesses to the past

Question 3

Historical sources are those materials from which the historians construct meaning. True or False.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Is an object from the past or a testimony concerning the past on which historians depend to create their own depiction of that past.

Answer 4

Source

Question 4

It [provides evidence about the
existence of an event

Answer 4

Source

Question 5

Is an argument about the event.

Answer 5

Historical Interpretation

Question 6

Historians deal with different aspects of history such as?

Answer 6

1. Dynamic or generic (the becoming)
2. Static (the being)
3. Interpretative (explaining why and how things happened and we interrelated)
4. Descriptive (telling what, where, when, and who took part in what happened)

Question 7

Categories of written history

Answer 7

1. Narrative/Literary
2. Diplomatic/Juridical
3. Social documents

Question 8

Are chronicles or tracts presented in narrative form,
written to impart a message whose motives for their composition vary widely.

Answer 8

Narrative/Literary

Question 9

Provide examples of narrative/literary sources

Answer 9

1. Scientific tract
2. Newspaper article
3. Ego document/Personal Narrative
4. Novel/Film
5. Biography
6. Hagiography

Question 10

A narrative source is therefore not a broader than what is usually considered fiction. True or False?

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Are understood to be those which document/record an existing legal situation or create a new one, and it is these kinds of sources that professional
historians once treated as the purest, the “best” source.

Answer 11

Diplomatic sources

Question 12

A _____ is usually sealed or authenticated
to provide evidence that a legal transaction has been completed and can be used as evidence in a judicial proceeding in case of dispute.

Answer 12

Legal document

Question 12

These possess specific formal properties, such as hand and print style, the ink, the seal, for external properties and rhetorical devices and images for internal properties, which are determined by the norms of laws and by tradition.

Answer 12

Diplomatic sources

Question 13

Are information pertaining to economic, social, political, or
judicial significance.

Answer 13

Social documents

Question 14

What are examples of social documents?

Answer 14

Municipal accounts, research findings, and documents like
these parliamentary procedures, civil registry records, property registers, and records of census.

Question 14

They are records kept by bureaucracies.

Answer 14

Social documents

Question 14

What are the two types of non-written sources?

Answer 14

1. Material evidence
2. Oral evidence

Question 15

Also known as archeological evidence is one of the most
important unwritten evidences.

Answer 15

Material evidence

Question 16

This include artistic creations such as pottery, jewelry,
dwellings, graves, churches, roads, and others that tell a story about the past.

Answer 16

Material evidence

Question 17

Known historical sites are purposely excavated with the hope of reconstructing and understanding their
meaningful past. True or False?

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Much are told by the tales or sagas of ancient peoples and the folk songs or popular rituals from the premodern period of Philippine history.

Answer 18

Oral evidence

Question 18

Two general kinds of historical sources

Answer 18

1. Primary sources
2. Secondary sources

Question 19

These sources are original
and factual, not interpretive. Their key function is to provide facts.

Answer 19

Primary sources

Question 19

Are materials made by people long after the events being described had taken place to provide valuable interpretations of historical events.

Answer 19

Secondary sources

Question 19

Are original, first-hand account of an event or period that are usually written or made during or close to the event or period.

Answer 19

Primary sources

Question 19

What are examples of primary sources?

Answer 19

Diaries, journals, letters, newspaper and magazine articles (factual accounts), government records (census, marriage, military), photographs, maps, postcards, posters, recorded or transcribed speeches, interviews with participants or witnesses, interviews with people who lived during a certain time, songs, plays, novels, stories, paintings, drawings, and sculptures.

Question 20

Analyzes and interprets primary sources.

Answer 20

Secondary sources

Question 20

It is an interpretation of second-hand account of a historical event.

Answer 20

Secondary sources

Question 21

What are examples of secondary sources?

Answer 21

Biographies, histories, literary criticism, books written by a third party about a historical event, art and theater reviews, newspaper or journal articles that interpret