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After reading Historical sources and their classification, make a glossary of it. Look for words that relate to the study of history and are new to u. Make the glossary and place it in alphabetical order.
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Heuristics: refers to the discipline, art or science of discovery.
Historical sources constitute the raw material of History. They include all documents, testimonies or objects that transmit significant information regarding the events that have taken place, especially in the past. Within them, written sources are the basic support to build History.
The historian works with historical sources ("questions and contrasts them") to obtain as much information as possible from them. In general sense, historical sources are of two types: primary and secondary.
Primary sources. They are those that have been developed practically at the same time as the events that we want to know about. They come to us without being transformed by any person; that is, as they were made at the time, without being subjected to any subsequent modifications.
Secondary sources. They are also called historiographical. They are those that are prepared from primary sources: books, articles...
1. Primary sources: How to approach their study?
We understand that studying historical sources, at this level, must be a basic, attractive and clear procedure that allows us to identify with the importance and content of a historical document. To do this, we can follow the following steps as a guide:
1. Specify that the document informs us about facts and events. Thus we will ask the following questions: what happened? We identify historical facts. How it happened? We make your description. Where? Why? What consequences are present in it?
2. Does the document inform us about social groups or people?: Who does it refer to? What is said about them? What do the people or groups think, if any?
3. Is the document informed about various activities? Specify whether they are political, social, economic, cultural, religious, etc. What references are there about them? Is it clear why they are carried out?
4. Does the document inform about institutions?: Which ones? What type? What function do they have? How are they structured? Who do they relate to?
5. Does it provide specific data?: How are they classified? What type are they? Are they related to people, events, activities, other institutions, etc.?
6. Does it contain significant opinions?: What type? What or who does it refer to? What attitudes do they reflect?
7. TYPES OF PRIMARY WRITTEN SOURCES: handwritten, printed, microfilmed and computerized.