1. What is History?
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What is YOUR definition of “history”
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3. What is History? What is History? Stories? Where in the Past?
2) What do these mean?
What is History?
STORIES from the past
Stories?
Tales of people, places, and events from the past
Where in the Past?
Timeline
Before…
BC-
AD-
Latin for “the year of Our Lord”
Now…
BCE-
CE-
Before Christ
After Christ
Before Common Era
Common Era
What is History?

4. How is History Passed? Oral Language Written Language What’s Best?
3) Results
Oral Language
Earliest form of expression
Stories passed by word of mouth
What’s the Problem?
Telephone Game
Stories Change as retold
Details Lost or Added
Written Language
Signifier for a civilization
Pictographs
Symbols or characters that represent words or phases
Cave Paintings
Alphabets
Interpretation
What’s Best?
Mixture of Both !
4) Compare
How is History Passed?

5. What if History Gets Lost?
5) Scientific Method?
What if History Gets Lost?
Dig it Up!!!
Research
How?
Books, Libraries, Internet, Etc.
Physically Dig!
Archeologists
Look, search, dig, find artifacts
Study them
Devise stories / explanations
Scientific Method
What if History Gets Lost?

6. What if History is Before Science or Not Scientific?
What if the History is Before Science or Not Scientific?
Blamed it on the GODS!!!
Example: Thunder was the Gods showing their anger
Developed Stories to explain the unexplainable
“Creation Myths”
What if History is Before Science or Not Scientific?

7. 6) What will your myth be?