Warm-Up

What governmental and economic systems does the United States of America utilize?

1-6: What is History?American History 8

What is History?

What is History?◦ STORIES from the past

Stories?◦ Tales of people, places, and

events from the pastWhere in the Past?

◦ Timeline Before…

◦ BC- Before Christ◦ AD- Anno Domini

Latin for “the year of Our Lord”

Now…◦ BCE- Before Common Era◦ CE- Common Era

1.) Define!

How is History Passed?

Oral Language◦ Earliest form of expression

Stories passed by word of mouth What’s the Problem?

◦ Telephone Game Stories Change as retold Details Lost or Added

Written Language◦ Signifier for a civilization

Pictographs ◦ Symbols or characters that

represent words or phases Cave Paintings Alphabets

What’s the Problem?◦ Things get lost or damaged◦ Point of View / Perspective

Interpretation

What’s Best?◦ Mixture of Both !

2.) Problem?

3.) Defining Characteristic

What if History Gets Lost?

What if History Gets Lost?◦Dig it Up!!!

Research◦How?

Books, Libraries, Internet, Etc.

Physically Dig!◦Archeologists

Look, search, dig, find artifacts

Study them Devise stories /

explanations◦ Scientific Method

4.) Steps?

What if History is Before Science or Not Scientific?

What if the History is Before Science or Not Scientific?◦Blamed it on the GODS!!!

Example: Thunder was the Gods showing their anger

Developed Stories to explain the unexplainable◦“Creation Myths”

5.) Create Example?