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Flashcards by Fatima Amin, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Fatima Amin
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What are historians? | People who study history in professional capacity. |
| Who was Aeschylus? | Aeschylus was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is also the first whose plays still survive; the others are Sophocles and Euripides. |
| Who was Herodotus? | Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the fifth century BC, a contemporary of Socrates. |
| Who do historians need help from and why? | Historians cannot work alone.They need the help of other professionals, including archaeologist, anthropologist, etymologist, linguists & conservators. |
| Where 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. |
| Why 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. |
| What's one major point about the british museum? | Has more than 7 million objects in its catalogue. |
| What does fragmentary mean? | Bits and pieces. |
| Who was Tacticus? | Rome's greatest historian. |
| When was he born and who did he marry? | 484 to 425 AD. he married Julia Agricola, daughter of the famous general Agricola. |
| WhAT BROUGHT THE END TO THE PERSIAN WARS? | the herodotus |
| What were the first civilisations? | Sumer, Egypt, India. |
| Why is history important? | An understanding of the past can help people understand why things are there. |
| What was some evidence of the first civilisations? | Religion, commerce, culture, cow, social development. |
| Why is it important to preserve the past? | The past must be preserved because everything in the future or present is based on the past. |
| Whta is context? | What you are talking about. |
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