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What is history?
Terms
History Pre-History Proto-history Geography Culture ** Government **
Key words:
Past Record Systematic
Chronological
Relics
Evidences are
validated Authenticated measured
by measurement
History
is not just a record of all events transpired in
the past. is not limited to past events embraces the present and connected with the future.
Elements of History
Human Beings Place, Time Causality
human achievement. The past is intelligent to us only in the light of the present and the present can be fully understood only in the light of the past. To enable us to understand society of the past and to increase our mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.
where man first emerged. Hominid human like being. Words often associated are: fossils, artifacts (made out of stone) among others.
Geography deals
with the structure of Topography specific
the earth Surface Physical forms such as landmasses and bodies of water Demography
include:
Sierra Madre Cordilla Central Mts.
archipelago, with all the islands and waters embraced therein, and all other territories over which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction, consisting of its terrestrial, fluvial and aerial domains, including its territorial sea, the seabed, the subsoil, the insular shelves, and other submarine areas. The waters around between, the connecting the islands of the archipelago, regardless of their breadth and dimensions, from part of the internal waters of the Philippines.
Key words:
Terrestrial Fluvial Aerial Insular shelves usually defined as the existing underwater seabeds that occur just beyond the perimeter of an island within a depth of 600 feet (from ehow.com)
Since other nations are also bounded by the same bodies of water
UNCLOS intervened settle disputes by setting demarcation EEZ (exclusive economic zone) Spratly s Islands fall within the 200 league
stretch
In a local setting
Regions
At present there are 17 regions in the country Region(s): administrative set up for better governance of the provinces The clustering of provinces can only take place when
they are geographically (situated) close to each other they share the same language and perhaps practices it has mandate of the public
E.g. Palawan