Europe 1400-1700
European historians from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries believed this was the primary purpose of history.
What is didactic?
Under this dynasty, more interest was expressed in the more recent past.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This language was used for written records under both the Safavids and the Mughal Dynasty.
What is Persian?
First author of a historical account of the Americas, who himself never went there.
Who is Pedro Martir de Angleria?
What is the fifth century?
European historians found the exposure of historical ________ like the Donation of Constantine not entirely comforting.
What are forgeries?
In this fifteenth-century text, official historian Qiu Jun offered independent insight on the past.
What is The Correct Bonds in Human History?
This genre of historical writing in South Asia was a history of a family's business affairs and land acquisitions.
What is a karina?
This study of the physical features of the earth was often incorporated in historical accounts.
What is geography?
These knotted cords were used to record numerical and historical data, and as an aid to memory.
What are quipu?
This Florentine historian was primarily concerned with current events and skeptical about the value of the past as an example.
Who was Guicciardini?
This historian critiqued past historians and outlined four responsibilities of historians.
Who is Qu Jingchun?
This woman wrote the Mughal history Humayun-Nama.
Who is Gul-Badan?
European historians relied on these people in order to write histories but were skeptical of them at the same time.
Who are informants/interpreters?
This historian included both years in the A.D. system and according to the Nahuatl calendar.
Who is Chimalpahin?
This umbrella discipline pursued the study of monuments, genealogies, tombstones, coins, and fossils.
What is antiquarianism?
What is Records of Wrongful Knowledge?
This Ottoman sultan initiated a major change in historical styles.
Who is Sultan Bayezid II?
This Dominican historian is held up by Woolf as an example of the tendency to attempt to fit Indigenous histories into a single, universal Christian history.
Who is Diego Duran?
The Spanish word cronista was translated by Alonso de Molina into this number of different Nahuatl terms.
What is four?
This text, authored by Jean Bodin, sought to give guidelines for correctly evaluating historical sources and also recognized Eurocentrism.
What is the Methodus?
Greater access to these helped increase private historiography.
What are documents?
This is the term for the practice of representing Indigenous African languages with Arabic.
What is adjami?
Three categories of "barbarians" according to historian Jose de Acosta.
What are the civilized, the semi-civilized, and the completely savage?
This historian critiqued both the Inca and the Europeans, used both pictures and narrative in alphabetic writing, and claimed to write to preserve the pre-conquest past in its true form.
Who is Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala?