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WHAT IS HISTORY?
Invention of writing
3000 BC
PREHISTORY HISTORY
Paleolithic Neolithic Metal A Ancient A Middle Ages Modern Age Contemporary
Appearance of
human beings
2.5 m.y. ago Fall of the Roman
Empire French Revolution
476 1789
Fall of
Constantinople
1453
Spain 1492
HOW DO WE MEASURE TIME?
LUSTRUM: 5 YEARS
DECADE: 10 YEARS
Murder?
Suicide?
Or just someone discovering a body?
HOW DO WE MEASURE TIME?
Chronology is the study of exactly when things happened.
Showing time
HISTORICAL SOURCES
GEOGRAPHY
ECONOMY
PALEOGRAPHY
SOCIOLOGY
ANTROPOLOGY ARCHAEOLOGY
NUMISMMATIC
EPIGRAPHY
GENEAOLOGY HERALDRY
THE STUDY OF HISTORY
WHAT IS IT?
(definition)
HOW?
HISTORICAL WHERE?
/WHY?
FACT
WHEN?
THE STUDY OF HISTORY
ECONOMY
ECONOMY Producution and
distribution of goods
POLITICS
Organization and
distribution of power
SOCIETY
TYPES OF Study of the social
SOCIETY HISTORICAL POLITICS
groups and its
FACTS
relationships
CULTURE
Group of ideas and
values of a society
(religion, science,
traditions, ideology
CULTURE
and art)
ECONOMY
POLITICS
SOCIETY
CULTURE