History 8 Historiography Manual Assignments
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Please post your response on the page attached to your question. BE SURE to SIGN your entry. Give Origins Manual and page numbers. You must have at least one external source (webpage) and a link to it. You need to follow Chicago Advanced webpage format. Do NOT use wikipedia or other open source sites(such as personal blogs) as a reference.
2. How do historians and archaeologists differ in their thinking?
3. Explain the first reason that history is important.
4. Explain the second reason that history is important.
5. Explain the first reason why history is an interpretation according to Edwin Fenton.
6. Explain the second reason why history is an interpretation according to Edwin Fenton.
7. Explain the third reason why history is an interpretation according to Edwin Fenton.
8. Explain the fourth reason why history is an interpretation according to Edwin Fenton.
9. Explain the fifth reason why history is an interpretation according to Edwin Fenton.
10. Explain the sixth reason why history is an ineerpretation according to Edwin Fenton.
11. Define and explain historiography.
12. Define geographic imagination. Why is it important?
13. Define enthnocentrism. How does it impact geographic imagination?
15. Explain the first two rule for judging information objectively.
16. Explain the last two rules for judging information objectively.
17. Why can there be exceptions to the rule for judging information objectively?
19. Define and explain law as it applies to the funnel of certainty.
20. Define and explain theory as it applies to history.
21. Define and explain the first characteristic of a good theory.
22. Define and explain the second characteristic of a good theory.
23. Define and explain the third characteristic of a good theory.
24. Define catastrophism. Explain how it can be useful.
25. Define material evidence, give examples.
26. When viewed as symbols, what do material objects tell us about cultures?
27. Define artifacts and give examples of each type.
28. Define and give examples of ecofacts.
29. Define and give examples of features
30. Define primary sources and the types of things that might be a primary source.
