PLS GUYS I NEED YOUR HELP WITH MY ASSGNMENT:
1. WHO IS REFFERED TO AS THE FATHER OF HISTORY AND WHY?
2. GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF A WRITTEN SOURCE AND HOW IT IS APPLICABLE TO THE PRESENT WORLD
3. TWO ADVANTAGES EACH OF THE FOLLOWING SOURCES OF HISTORY
a ORAL SOURCE
b ARCHAEOLOGY
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Answer:
1. Herodotus has been called the “father of history.” An engaging narrator with a deep interest in the customs of the people he described, he remains the leading source of original historical information not only for Greece between 550 and 479 BCE but also for much of western Asia and Egypt at that time.
2. Written sources. Some examples of primary written sources are contemporary letters, eyewitness accounts, official documents, political declarations and decrees, administrative texts, and histories and biographies written in the period that is to be studied.
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1. Herodotus. He was the first one to show the great interest in customs....
2. Contemporary letters, eyewitness accounts, official documents, etc....
3. a. i.Oral history can often ‘fill in the gaps’ – providing useful information that written sources don’t provide.
ii.It can tell us about people who aren’t mentioned in the ‘standard’ sources – for example, long forgotten members of the laity.
b. i. It has the unique capability of stretching back to the remotest eras of human existence and drawing the hitherto unknown out of the darkness of time.
ii. Itdeals in tangible relics and therefore it can claim credibility that no other human sciences can.
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