M1S1 Part 1 Flashcards
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History is a Greek word which means WHAT
Investigation
History (from Greek ἱστορία, WHAT, meaning WHAT)
historia
“inquiry,
knowledge acquired by
investigation”
is the study of the
past as it is described in written
documents.
history
Events occurring before WHAT are considered prehistory.
written
record
History is an umbrella term that relates to
past events as well as the WHAT of
information about these events.
memory,
discovery, collection, organization,
presentation, and interpretation
List of Filipino Historians:
Teodoro Agoncillo
Trinidad Pardo de Tavera
Fr. Horacio de la Costa, SJ
Gregorio F. Zaide
the sum total of everything
that has actually happened in the
past-every thought, every action,
every event.
history
the sum total of everything
that has actually happened in WHAT
past-every thought, every action,
every event.
History is not ‘what happened in the past’; rather, it is the WHAT
act of selecting, analyzing, and writing the past.
“To be ignorant of the past is to
remain always a child.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Those who do not remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.”
-George Santayana
History is not a burden on the memory
but an illumination of the soul.
-John Dalberg Acton
“History is written by
the victors.”
-Winston Churchill
A people without the knowledge of their
past history, origin and culture is like a
tree without roots.
-Marcus Garvey
There is no future
without memory.
“Qu’il n’est pas d’avenir sans memoire.”
-Jacques Chirac
“The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the essence of what we mean by the word "unhistorical".”
― Herbert Butterfield.
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“I shall relate quite simply how
things happened and without
adding anything of my own, which
is no small feat for an historian.”
François-Marie Arouet
“Voltaire”
“The historian without his facts is
rootless and futile; the facts without
their historian are dead and
meaningless.”
-Edward Hallett Carr
“In your travel, learn the
brief history of the place
visited. History is rich
knowledge.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“History teaches us that man
learns nothing from history.”
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Life can only be
understood backwards
but it must be lived
forward.”
-Soren Kierkegaard
“Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.”
-Francisco Sionil Jose
We are not makers of
history. We are made by
history.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. ”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
