Ying Wa College S.1 History Introduction to History Study PDF

Ying Wa College S.1 History Introduction to History Study Name: Class: No.: Learning Objectives: To understand what is history, why people study history To understand the basic concepts of “change”, “continuity”, “similarities” and “difference” To under...

Ying Wa College S.1 History Introduction to History Study Name: Class: No.: Learning Objectives: To understand what is history, why people study history To understand the basic concepts of “change”, “continuity”, “similarities” and “difference” To understand the importance of ‘time’ in the study of history A. What is history? Study the pictures below and identify if they are history or not. Source A Source B I visited Disneyland Hong Kong last month. The Anglo-Chinese College was moved to Hong Kong in 1843 and became one of the earliest school in the city. Source C Source D The Sun may explode in the future. The Second World War ended in 1945. Which of the above Sources is/are history? Explain your answer. I think Source A, B and D is/are history because they are true events happened in the past. History is (1) the past and true events of humans. (2) a written records of the past. (3) a study of historical records. YWC S.1 History /2024-25/Topic 1: Introduction to History Study / page 1 Features of history 1. There are different types of history including personal history, local history and world history. 2. Change and Continuity Change and continuity are two important concepts in history. Continuity describes a phenomenon that has continued for a long time. Change means there is a break with the past. Using the ice-cream mooncakes as an example, explain these two concepts. The Chinese people kept the tradition of eating mooncakes to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival but there was a change of ingredients in making mooncakes. 3. Similarities and differences The ‘similarity and difference’ is to help us avoid over-generalisation about people in the past, to recognise and analyse the diversity of past experience. For example, we will compare and contrast the ancient civilisations of Egypt and Greece this year. We can draw many similarities between them, like the existence of a government, importance of trade. However, if we examine them carefully, we will study the differences in their forms of governments and the importance of trade was due to different reasons. YWC S.1 History /2024-25/Topic 1: Introduction to History Study / page 2 B. Why do we study history? Some historians studied Bruce Lee and his kung- fu films. Studying the kung-fu film culture in Hong Kong can promote the sense of belongings to our society. History tells us about the development of our community, our country and the world. We can understand how things changed or continued, such as the division of Korea into two separate countries. Nazi history was taught in high schools in Germany. By studying history, we can learn from past mistakes. C. How do we study history? 1. How to express time? a. “AD” and “BC”: The Christian calendar is the most common method of counting years. It starts with the birth of Jesus Christ. The period before his birth is called “BC” (which means Before Christ) and that after his birth is called “AD”(which means Anno Domini) Note: In B.C. time, the greater the number, the earlier the time is. In A.D. time, the greater the number, the later the time is. The word BC should be put after the figures and AD should be put before the figures, i.e. 476BC, AD1945, etc. YWC S.1 History /2024-25/Topic 1: Introduction to History Study / page 3 b. Decade (10 years), century (100 years) and millennium (1000 years) are also used to count time. For example, the year 1914 belongs to the second decade of the 20th century. Calculating centuries As a general rule, the AD 1 st century refer to the first 100 years after the Jesus Christ was born, i.e. AD1-100, the AD 2nd century refer to the second 100 years, i.e. AD101-200 and so on. Therefore, we can use the following method to calculate to which century a year belongs. If the year is made up of three digits, add 1 to the first digit; if the year has four digits, add 1 to the first two digits. For example: In AD 618, the Tang Dynasty was set up, and it belongs to the 7 th century (6+1) Exception: The rule is not applied to years ended in “00”. AD600 belongs to the 6th century and AD1900 belongs to the 19th century. Fill in the table with suitable time format. Year Century 1. 1818 19th century 2. 1750 18th century 3. 1914 20th century 4. 2023 21st century 5. 1789 18th century c. Historians divide the past into prehistoric times, which refers to the period before people invented writing and historic times, which refers to the period after invention of writing. d. Historic times was further divided into: (i) ancient times (about 4000BC – AD476) (ii) Middle Ages/ medieval times (AD476-1492) (iii) modern times (AD1492 – present) YWC S.1 History /2024-25/Topic 1: Introduction to History Study / page 4  2. Steps to plot historical events on a timeline a. Draw a horizontal line with arrows on both sides. b. Divide the timeline into BC and AD. c. Decide the earliest and latest dates that you wish to include. d. Choose the period of time that your timeline will cover, being sure to include the earliest and latest dates. B.C. A.D. 2000BC 1500BC 1000BC 500BC AD1 AD500 AD1000 AD1500 AD2000 e. Add the break symbol on the timeline if necessary to show that a certain part of the timeline was not on scale. f. Decide what units of time you will use (days, months, years, decades, centuries, etc.) to divide your timeline into segments, based on the size of your paper. (e.g. Use 1cm to represent 20 years) g. Label the dates on every boundaries of the segment. Label the events at the appropriate place on the timeline. Everything on the time should be on the correct scale. Example 1: Expressing events on a timeline YWC S.1 History /2024-25/Topic 1: Introduction to History Study / page 5  Example 2: Expressing periods on a timeline Present the following information in the form of a timeline. Vocabularies 1. history 2. past records 3. change 4. continuity 5. similarities 6. difference 7. decade 8. century 9. Before Christ 10. Anno Domini 11. prehistoric times 12. historic times 13. ancient times 14. medieval times 15. modern times 16. Middle Ages YWC S.1 History /2024-25/Topic 1: Introduction to History Study / page 6