mas-historia

AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY Historians cannot know everything when investigating a historical fact, they will need the help of many other sciences to be able to carry out his work in a more precise and rigorous way, that is, more scientific. -Among many of the sciences that collaborate with History, among the most prominent is Geography , whose purpose is to describe the Earth, soils and climates where the human being has been located, helps us to understand the relationship between Man and the environment. - Chronology , helps us to date, to locate the events in time. The starting point used to count time is the birth of Jesus Christ, so everything that happened before that event is called before Christ, and is abbreviated BC. - Archeology , studies the material remains of the past, for example, monuments, sculptures, and other objects built or used by Humans. - Geology, studies the terrestrial globe, both its origin and the formation of the materials that co

SOURCES OF HISTORY Historians need evidences to be able to reconstruct the historical past, whether on recent events or on the remote past. They call them sources of information. Those tests or traces that the past has left us, can be classified into four groups: - Written documents - Oral history - Material remains - Audio-visual documents 1- Written documents have always been an important source for the study of the past. But some documents could be difficult to understand, o incomplete, so they need special study. It is important to keep in mind that documents written at the same time of the events to investigate are called historical documents. For example, a letter written by José Artigas. Those documents that were prepared after the historical events are called historiographic documents. 2- But when we do not have written documents to reconstruct the past, either because they have disappeared or the events were prior to the invention of writing, the h