Theories of History
Approaches to History
Application of History
History and International Conflict
History, Politics, and Power
100

The three theories of history

What are providential, cyclical, and progressive history?

100

The characteristics of a good historian

What is taking all the evidence into account or professional training and a publishing record?

100

Historiography

What is a history of histories

100

Barriers to international diplomacy created by nationalist histories

What is collective memory that paints a nation as having “done no wrong”

100

Definition of History

What is the written, oral, or visual reconstruction of past human endeavors based on available sources?

200

The theory that history is predestined by God

What is providential history

200

Empirical approach to history

What is the application of the scientific method to history?

200

Three examples of a Primary Source

What are artifacts, diaries, memoirs, emails, letters, autobiographies, interviews, official documents, visual images, coins, stamps, demographic statistics, economic records, polls?

200

How a mature democracy interacts with history

What is allowing scholars to freely criticize their own people of government?

200

What the phrase “history is written by the winners” reveals about the accuracy of history

What are the biases that glorify the writer and downplay their mistakes

300

The theory that history repeats itself

What is cyclical history?

300

Contributions of Revisionist History

What is the use of new evidence to revise previously accepted biased histories?

300

The benefits of popular history

What is an increased and more interested audience

300

This term describes a situation in which two different understood histories result in conflicts. Ex: Irish Catholic Nationalist History, Israel/Palestine, and claims to South China Sea

What are Opposing Histories?

300

Why history can’t be used to predict the future

What is the impossibility of replicating the unique variables that lead to an event?

400

Progressive History

What is the theory that future goods can eliminate past wrongs?

400

Claims of Postmodernist history

What are the biases inherent in historical accounts that make objective history impossible

400

Nationalist histories

What is a history created to champion one nation over another to seek retribution for past wrongs?

400

This is the name of the land disputed between India and Pakistan.

What is the Kashmir Region?

400

This concept relates to the changing of history done by powerful figures to give them a better image.

Distortion of historical records

500

What historians differ on

What are causation, interpretation, and significance

500

This man devised a political-economic theory of history based on the scientific proof of class conflict.

Who is Karl Marx?

500

The consequences of denying nationalist history

What are the accusations of treason or attacks on foreign critics

500

This was the result of two countries’ differing claims to Crimean Peninsula.

What is the Russia/Ukraine war (2014)?

500

This term refers to the new ideas of openness brought to the Soviet Union by Gorbachev, showing the falsehoods that were present in the nation.

What is Glasnost?

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