History
• From Latin historia “narrative of past event, account, tale, story” from
Greek historia “a learning or knowing by inquiry; an account of one’s
inquiries
Historical Context
• The first historians recorded their observations collated from various
sources of oral history. Some recorded facts as it is, some listed things
to aid their memory, and others wrote things down for
storytelling purposes.
Western History traces its origins to two Greek individuals who changed the
way events were recorded.
• Herodotus
• Thucydides
Leopold Von Ranke
• He states that to be empirical in writing about the past means
emphasizing the importance of relying on primary written sources;
hence, the emphasis on the phrase “no documents, no history.”
Core concepts, objects of study, methods, and subdisciplines
The sources of historians are grouped into two major categories:
• Secondary Sources
• Primary Sources
Historians
• Verifying sources is a skill mastered by historians.criticism.
- External criticism
- Internal criticism
Subdisciplines of history
, - Political history - Social History
- Cultural history - Intellectual History
- Economic history - Oral History
Geography
- It is defined as the study of space and place, natural resources, and the
relationship of man to his environment.
- Derived from the Greek word deo means “the earth and graphein
means “to write”
Historical Context
- The history of geography and the importance of geographical
knowledge can be traced to man’s primordial need to understand his
environment, location, and his movements within the world.
- Every culture in the world has its own geographical knowledge.
- Eratosthenes,
geography”.
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- He invented the discipline of geography, including the terminology
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Bernhardus Varenius
- During the 17th century, Bernhardus Varenius published a geographical
text title Geographia Generalis that included an account on the science
of geography dividing the discipline into three related fields: absolute,
relative, and comparative geography.
• From Latin historia “narrative of past event, account, tale, story” from
Greek historia “a learning or knowing by inquiry; an account of one’s
inquiries
Historical Context
• The first historians recorded their observations collated from various
sources of oral history. Some recorded facts as it is, some listed things
to aid their memory, and others wrote things down for
storytelling purposes.
Western History traces its origins to two Greek individuals who changed the
way events were recorded.
• Herodotus
• Thucydides
Leopold Von Ranke
• He states that to be empirical in writing about the past means
emphasizing the importance of relying on primary written sources;
hence, the emphasis on the phrase “no documents, no history.”
Core concepts, objects of study, methods, and subdisciplines
The sources of historians are grouped into two major categories:
• Secondary Sources
• Primary Sources
Historians
• Verifying sources is a skill mastered by historians.criticism.
- External criticism
- Internal criticism
Subdisciplines of history
, - Political history - Social History
- Cultural history - Intellectual History
- Economic history - Oral History
Geography
- It is defined as the study of space and place, natural resources, and the
relationship of man to his environment.
- Derived from the Greek word deo means “the earth and graphein
means “to write”
Historical Context
- The history of geography and the importance of geographical
knowledge can be traced to man’s primordial need to understand his
environment, location, and his movements within the world.
- Every culture in the world has its own geographical knowledge.
- Eratosthenes,
geography”.
the
notion
firstofone
theto
Hethe
use
was
ancient
the word
Greek
geography
scholarand
is called
he also
thehad
“father
a small-scale
of
- Eratosthenes, the Ancient Greek scholar is called the “Father of
Geography”. He was the one to use the word geography and he also
had a small-scale notion of the planet that helped him to determine the
circumference of the earth.
- He calculated the circumference of the Earth without leaving place
Egypt
- He invented the discipline of geography, including the terminology
used today
Bernhardus Varenius
- During the 17th century, Bernhardus Varenius published a geographical
text title Geographia Generalis that included an account on the science
of geography dividing the discipline into three related fields: absolute,
relative, and comparative geography.
