Welcome to your Grade 11 History chapter 1
After carefully reading the following 30 questions, choose the correct answer.
1.
What is the Greek root of the word "History," meaning inquiry or knowledge acquired by investigation?
2.
Which period refers to the time before the beginning of the technique of writing about 4000 B.C.?
3.
Who is generally regarded as the "father of history"?
4.
Which scholar is considered the "father of modern historiography"?
5.
What term describes the history of historical writing and the methods of historical research?
6.
Which key element in historical study involves writing unbiased or undistorted history?
7.
Who founded Ethiopian studies in Europe in the last quarter of the 17th century?
8.
What theory suggests that strong state power emerged to organize labor for large-scale irrigation and flood control?
9.
Which development was primary in the coming into existence of early states?
10.
What term is derived from Latin words for "citizen" and "city"?
11.
History deals with patterns of cause and effect that determine what over time?
12.
Which historian critically wrote about the Peloponnesian War?
13.
What refers to the sum total of rules and techniques followed in acquiring knowledge in a discipline?
14.
Why is history considered a science?
15.
What is the serious problem of judging the past from the perspectives of the present?
16.
Unlike historians, what do social scientists use regularly in their study?
17.
What provides the evidence from which historical information is obtained?
18.
When did history emerge as an independent professional field of study in European schools?
19.
What is the major focus regarding human origins in this unit?
20.
Which region is generally accepted as the cradle of man?
21.
Which basins in Ethiopia provide archaeological evidence for early humans?
22.
In history, what must every statement be supported by?
23.
What involves identifying real facts and presenting what all the facts say without bias?
24.
In ancient states, what determined an individual's position in the social hierarchy?
25.
What term refers to an organized and critical study of the past based on interpretation?
26.
Who wrote about the achievements of Ethiopian emperors from the 14th to early 20th century?
27.
What is the purpose of source criticism in historical methodology?
28.
Which type of religious writers contributed to Ethiopian history through records of saints?
29.
What does the term "hominid" generally refer to in this unit?
30.
History helps us learn from the achievements of people in the past so that we:
31.
The Neolithic Revolution is associated with which major change?
