Basics of History

Basics of History
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Basics of History

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Past

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History

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Learning goals
In this lesson you are going to learn: 

  • to explain the difference between history and the past.
  • to give examples of different types of sources.
  • to explain the difference between change and continuity, using two examples of each.

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What is history?
History = the study of the past. It's coming from the Greek word Historia , which means "knowledge that comes from investigation".

History is about the past of humans, which is studied by historians. They help us understand who we are.

Very important in history: sources! They give us an image of the past. Some sources are more reliable than others. For example: a photograph of a WW1 trench from 1915 is more reliable than a drawing of the trench today,


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Can you name a type of source?

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Building blocks of history
Time is one of the most important building blocks of history. If you're telling a story from the past, it's important to know when your story is happening.

We use the Christian calendar and we live know in the year 2023 CE (=Common Era). Everything before year 1 is BCE (=Before Common Era). 

Centuries are also used to order time in the past. 
Historical periods are blocks of time with common characteristics, things that are typical for a particular person, place of thing.

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Change, continuity, cause & consequences
Change is an important tool to study the past. Change = things become different through time. 
Continuity (from the word 'to continue') are things that stays the same through time. For example: religion.

Cause: the reason that changes happen. Causes can be a lot of things, such as inventions, events, human actions or natural disasters.
Consequences: the things that happend because of the causes.

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Go to Learnbeat!
  • Go to Learnbeat 1.1A: Learning Goals: The Basics of History.
  • Make the questions A, B and C.
  • We will discuss your answers together.

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Go to Learnbeat (part II)
Go to Learnbeat 1.1B: Lesson 1: The Basics of History.
Read the pages and answer the questions.
You have until the end of class to finish the questions.

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