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Understanding the Past | Set 1

1. The word Epistemology is derived from word EPISTEME.

Correct : B. greek

2. The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, origin and scope of knowledge.

Correct : C. epistemology

3. is the chronological record of what humans beings thought aspired and acted for.

Correct : D. history

4. History (derived from , historia, meaning inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation) is the study of the past, specifically how it relates to humans.

Correct : B. greek

5. refers to both the study of the methodology of historians and the development of history as a discipline, and also to a body of historical work on a particular subject

Correct : A. historiography

6. and define historiography as "the study of the way history has been and is written – the history of historical writing... When you study 'historiography' you do not study the events of the past directly, but the changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians."

Correct : A. furay and salevouris

7. The famous historian known to be the “father of history” is.

Correct : D. cicero

8. The ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484–425 BC).

Correct : A. herodotus

9. The major works of Marcus Tullius Cicero is.

Correct : D. all of these

10. Theauthor of the book The Histories—the masterpiece work in produced in Latin and acquired its modern meaning of "history".

Correct : A. herodotus

11. is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it,who is concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time.

Correct : B. historian

12. Chronology is derived from word chronologia, means the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time.

Correct : A. latin & greek

13. The periodical arrangement of events in the order of it’s occurrence is called.

Correct : D. chronology

14. Who derived the term Middle Ages as one of the notable term of historical period.

Correct : A. petrarch

15. The Italian scholar who is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the "Dark Ages”.

Correct : A. petrarch

16. is often called the "Father of Humanism".In the History of 16th century.

Correct : A. petrarch

17. The is a historical periodization used originally for the Middle Ages which emphasizes the cultural and economic deterioration that supposedly occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire .

Correct : D. dark ages.

18. Who started the modern science of Historical Chronology.

Correct : D. joseph scaliger

19. The schotish Historian who wrote the book The situation of the world at the time of Christ's appearance.

Correct : C. william robertson

20. The British Historian lived in 18th century. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Correct : A. edward gibbon

21. is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, leaders and entities.It is very interrelated to other fields of history such as Diplomatic history,social history, economic history, and military history, as well as constitutional history and public history.

Correct : A. political history

22. deals with the history of international relations between states. Diplomatic history can be different from international relations in that the former can concern itself with the foreign policy of one state while the latter deals with relations between two or more states.

Correct : B. diplomatic history

23. often called the new area history, is a broad branch of history that studies the experiences of ordinary people in the past.

Correct : C. social history

24. is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing intra and international relationships.

Correct : D. military history

25. The German Historian and Philosopher who is the founder of Hegelianism and Historism.

Correct : D. g w f hegel

26. The first "scientific" political history was written by in Germany in the 19th century.

Correct : A. leopold von ranke

27. is a set of conscious and unconscious ideas that constitute one's goals, expectations, and actions.

Correct : B. ideology