What History is about?
what is history ?
PAST
Study
what we study?
EVENTS
Things That Happen
People
Important
Contribute changes
Impact on world
Improve the world
How we study?
study sources
object owned
left behind
used
ask questions
to construct knowledge
examine sources
extract information
respond question asked
write logical conclusion
past in response
why we study?
learn from past
Not to make the same mistakes
Repeat sucess
Change present and future
improvement & success
want to find out
what happen?
when happen?
where happen?
who were involved?
why it happen?
what consequences?
History
constructing knowledge
early past
Asking question
Help constructing knoweldge
gather sources information
written accounts
such as
personal documments
Gorverment documment
pictorial records
oral traditions
artefacts