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15 Cards in this Set
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What are the 2 broad themes in History?
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Integration & Diversity
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They're opposites!
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What are the basic tools historians use?
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Maps, units of analysis, periodization, chronology
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There are 4, and they sort information
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What are some units of analysis?
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1) Nations
2) Ocean basins & rims 3) Systems 4) Civilizations 5) Regions 6) Religion |
Hints for each:
1) Stuff like America, England, Egypt 2) The Pacific 3) The slave trade 4) The Romans 5) The Middle East 6) Buddhism |
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What types of chronology are there?
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Linear, cyclical, and event-based
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There are 3 and are all different ways to look at time
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What is linear time?
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Shoving everything into uniform units of time, e.g the Roaring Twenties, The Great Depression, The Hundred Years War
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the 60's, 70's, 80's
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Define cyclical time.
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Time with no set units, if it lasted 117 years it's recorded as 117 years, e.g dynasties.
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Dynasties!
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What is event-based time?
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Time based on events that happened that year, tribal
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The Year of the Great Stampede
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What's periodization?
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The way we group spans of time into themes, e.g the 60's, 70's, the Renaissance, Stone Age, Victorians, Dark Ages, 40's, The Age of Exploration
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Victorians? Stone Age? Georgians? Middle Ages?
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What is individual memory?
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Where you have knowledge but cannot, or do not, pass it on
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Rats
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What is collective memory?
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Memory that is accessible by the community.
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Humans
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What are some ways to record history?
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1) Verbally
2) Writing 3) Art 4) Architecture 5) Scarrification 6) Winter counts 7) Memory boards |
Hints:
1) Talking about it 2) The Bible 3) Cave paintings 4) The Pyramids 5) Tattoos 6) tribal councils 7) Beads |
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What's the structure of a valid argument?
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You need a:
1) Claim 2) Warrant (evidence) 3) Impact (tie-in, relate the claim to the warrant) |
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1) I think Franz Ferdinand is the best band ever. 2) Alex Kapranos has nice teeth. 3) Therefore, nice teeth = sucess and sucess = best band ever. |
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When were the first humans walking upright?
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30,000 to 40,000 years ago
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10x as much as my desired NaNoWriMo word count for Saturday night.
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How old is simple language + the great migration?
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100,000 years ago
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Twice as much as the final NaNoWriMo word count.
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What is lapita pottery?
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Early Indonesian & polynesian currency
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They didn't have coins yet, so they used this
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