Theories of History
The three theories of history
What are providential, cyclical, and progressive history?
The characteristics of a good historian
What is taking all the evidence into account or professional training and a publishing record?
Historiography
What is a history of histories
Barriers to international diplomacy created by nationalist histories
What is collective memory that paints a nation as having “done no wrong”
Definition of History
What is the written, oral, or visual reconstruction of past human endeavors based on available sources?
The theory that history is predestined by God
What is providential history
Empirical approach to history
What is the application of the scientific method to history?
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?
How a mature democracy interacts with history
What is allowing scholars to freely criticize their own people of government?
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
The theory that history repeats itself
What is cyclical history?
Contributions of Revisionist History
What is the use of new evidence to revise previously accepted biased histories?
The benefits of popular history
What is an increased and more interested audience
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?
Why history can’t be used to predict the future
What is the impossibility of replicating the unique variables that lead to an event?
Progressive History
What is the theory that future goods can eliminate past wrongs?
Claims of Postmodernist history
What are the biases inherent in historical accounts that make objective history impossible
Nationalist histories
What is a history created to champion one nation over another to seek retribution for past wrongs?
This is the name of the land disputed between India and Pakistan.
What is the Kashmir Region?
This concept relates to the changing of history done by powerful figures to give them a better image.
Distortion of historical records
What historians differ on
What are causation, interpretation, and significance
This man devised a political-economic theory of history based on the scientific proof of class conflict.
Who is Karl Marx?
The consequences of denying nationalist history
What are the accusations of treason or attacks on foreign critics
This was the result of two countries’ differing claims to Crimean Peninsula.
What is the Russia/Ukraine war (2014)?
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?