Which one of these works WAS written by Christopher Hill?

The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

What did von Ranke believe?

The past in knowable and unalterable

What was Keith Windschuttle’s methodology?

Traditional, Rankean methodology

What was the name of Bede's main historical work?

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People

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Which one of these works WAS written by Christopher Hill?
The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 - 1848
The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714
The Condition of the Working Class in England
The Making of the English Working Class
2
Where was Herodotus born?
Athens
Ambracia
Ephesius
Halicarnassus
3
Which one is not from the Enlightenment?
Gibbon
Montesquieu
Locke
Chomsky
4
Who was part of the Annalists school of thought?
Marc Bloch
Von Ranke
Theodore White
Christopher Hill
5
What did von Ranke believe?
The past is unknowable and alterable
The past is unknowable and unalterable
The past in knowable and unalterable
6
'Hermeneutical' history was written by which historian?
Bede
Edward Gibbon
Leopold von Ranke
Christopher Hill
7
Which one of these works was NOT written by The Venerable Bede?
The Reckoning of Time
Mere Christianity
On Genesis
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
8
When was the ‘father of history’ born?
500BCE
490BCE
484BCE
378BCE
9
Who wrote the ‘The Ecclesiastical History of the English People’?
Herodotus
Bede
Robbie
Thucydides
10
What is History?
the study of the past, particularly in human affairs.
History is the past as it is described in written documents
Anything you want it to be, there is no truth
All of the above
11
Where was Bede born?
Norwich
Dover
Essex
Durham
12
During what historical period did Edward Gibbon write?
The Awakening
The Enlightenment
The Renaissance
The French Revolution
13
Where was Henry Reynolds born?
Hobart, Tasmania
Launceston, Tasmania
Toowoomba, Queensland
Devonport, Tasmania
14
Which two historians wrote about the inevitability of, and the fall of, established societies?
Herodotus and Gibbon
The Annalists and Gibbon
Gibbon and Hill
Herodotus and Bede
15
Which one of these mythical figures did Herodotus not write about? Hippogriff
Giant Ants
Griffins
Hippogriff
Phoenix
16
About which place did Herodotus go off on a 300 page tangent?
Nubia
Scythe
Egypt
Khufu
17
Is museum artefacts Popular, Public or Academic resources?
All of the above
Popular
Public
Academic
18
What was Keith Windschuttle’s methodology?
Mixed Method
Only uses primary sources
Uses all types of sources
Traditional, Rankean methodology
19
Who suggested that historical discourse is a form of fiction that can be classified and studied?
Edward Gibbon
Herodotus
Richard Evans
Hayden White
20
Christopher Hill is a _______ historian.
Nihilist
Marxist
Revisionist
Postmodernist
21
What war did Thucydides write about?
The Islamic Crusads
Pelopponesian War
Roman-Greco Wars
Athenian-Spartan War
22
Which historian did not travel widely?
Polybius
Herodotus
Bede
Thucydides
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What was the name of Bede's main historical work?
English History for the Church
Ecumenical History of the English People
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Ecclesiastical History of the Church and its People

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