Exercise 1.1

• Incompleteness of records has limited man’s knowledge of history


  Limitation of Historical knowledge
• These are raw materials out of which history maybe written.

  Aritifacts or documents
• This historical method historians investigate, collects and examine sources

  Historical Analysis
• Historian’s ability to reconstruct historical events.

  Interpretative
• Historians aim of searching the truth, authenticity and plausibility

  Verisimilitude
• Objects or things that have since been forgotten or the experience of generation long dead.

  Historical Bias
• The practice of historical writing

  Historiography
• Learning by inquiry

  Historia
• Historical objectivity

  Historical impartiality
• The process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past.

  Historical method