Class 10 History and Political Science – Chapter 1: Historiography: Development in the West MCQ
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Which university, founded in Germany in 1737 C.E., was the first to give history an independent department?
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Answer: B. Gottingen University
The Gottingen University (1737) first gave history a separate department; other German universities followed.The rule 'never accept anything as true until every ground of doubt is removed' comes from which thinker's book 'Discourse on the Method'?
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Answer: A. René Descartes
René Descartes insisted on critically checking documents; this rule from his 'Discourse on the Method' shaped scientific research.'François-Marie Arouet' was the original name of which French thinker?
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Answer: C. Voltaire
Voltaire's original name was François-Marie Arouet; he asked historians to study society's traditions, trade, economy and agriculture too.Hegel's method of understanding an event through opposites (thesis, antithesis and then a synthesis) is called:
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Answer: D. Dialectics
Analysis based on opposites like true-false or good-bad, ending in a synthesis of thesis and antithesis, is called dialectics.Leopold von Ranke of Berlin University gave the greatest importance to which source of information?
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Answer: A. Original documents
Ranke stressed the critical method and information from original documents, and he criticised imaginative narration of history.According to Karl Marx, human history is the history of:
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Answer: B. class struggle
Marx held that the class owning the means of production exploits other classes, so history is the history of class struggle.The Annales School of historiography arose at the beginning of the twentieth century in which country?
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Answer: C. France
The Annales School began in France and widened history to climate, local people, farming, trade, technology and society.Which Greek historian of the fifth century B.C.E. first used the term 'history', for his book 'The Histories'?
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Answer: D. Herodotus
'History' is a Greek word; Herodotus first used it as the title of his book 'The Histories'.Whose writings helped establish the fundamentals of feminism, the basis of feminist historiography?
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Answer: B. Simone de Beauvoir
The French scholar Simone de Beauvoir laid the foundations of feminism; feminist historiography rebuilds history from women's perspective.The tradition of recording historical events, with battles of kings preserved in inscriptions, can be traced back to which civilisation?
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Answer: A. Sumer civilisation in Mesopotamia
The chapter traces the recording of historical events to Sumer in Mesopotamia, whose kings' battles survive in inscriptions.
All questions are written by PadhaiNotes in our own words from this chapter of the official Maharashtra State Board Balbharati textbook.