TORRELIZA, KRISZEL V.

ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
ZHI 112- 2ECE MWF 1:00-2:00

1. Why study History?

The reasons why History tend to be studied by college students,
specifically Filipinos, are as follows:

According to Peter N. Stearns, history builds experience in dealing with

and assessing various kinds of evidencethe sorts of evidence
historians use in shaping the most accurate pictures of the past that
they can. .

History also helps provide identity, and this is unquestionably one of

the reasons all modern nations encourage its teaching in some form.
Historical data include evidence about how families, groups,
institutions and whole countries were formed and about how they have
evolved while retaining cohesion.

History helps us understand change and how the society we live in

came to be. History, also, is inescapable as a subject of serious study
follows closely on the first. The past causes the present, and so the
future. Any time we try to know why something happened, we have to
look for factors that took shape earlier.

2. Different Concepts:

History- a narration of the events which have happened among

mankind, including an account of the rise and fall of nations, as well as
of other great changes which have affected the political and social
condition of the human race.

Geography- he study of places and the relationships between people

and their environments. It explores both the physical properties of
Earths surface and the human societies spread across it.

Culture- Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular

group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine,
social habits, music and arts.

Civilization- an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture,

science,
industry and government have been reached ;contains an overt
value judgment that civilization
is better, more advanced, and superior to
other forms of social organization.
Sources:

http://archaeology.about.com/
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/what-is-geography/
http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/6.3/brown.html
http://www.livescience.com/21478-what-is-culture-definition-of-culture.html