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What are historians?
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- 1What are historians?People who study history in professional capacity.
- 2Who was Aeschylus?Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is also the first whose plays still survive; the others are Sophocles and Euripides.
- 3Who was Herodotus?Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the fifth century BC, a contemporary of Socrates.
- 4Who do historians need help from and why?Historians cannot work alone.They need the help of other professionals, including archaeologist, anthropologist, etymologist, linguists & conservators.
- 5Where do they store the Gettysburg?The Library of Congress stores a copy of the Gettysburg Address-President Abraham Lincoln's speech at Gettysburg in 1863.
- 6Why are museums considered important?Museums provide a unique interactive experience of getting up close to things we usually only see in books, newspapers or on the television.
- 7What's one major point about the british museum?Has more than 7 million objects in its catalogue.
- 8What does fragmentary mean?Bits and pieces.
- 9Who was Tacticus?Rome's greatest historian.
- 10When was he born and who did he marry?484 to 425 AD. he married Julia Agricola, daughter of the famous general Agricola.
- 11WhAT BROUGHT THE END TO THE PERSIAN WARS?the herodotus
- 12What were the first civilisations?Sumer, Egypt, India.
- 13Why is history important?An understanding of the past can help people understand why things are there.
- 14What was some evidence of the first civilisations?Religion, commerce, culture, cow, social development.
- 15Why is it important to preserve the past?The past must be preserved because everything in the future or present is based on the past.
- 16Whta is context?What you are talking about.
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