HIS109Y1 Final: HISTORY NOTES EXAM REVIEW FROM MARINA
Document Summary
History can be said to be the study of how societies and people change over time, history involves analyzing events such as the great war and the 2008 financial crisis to determine what led to those events and why. History is useful as it not only tells us how we got where we are now, but how to avoid making the same mistakes that were made in the past. Historians have to analyze insane amounts of evidence in the form of primary source documents such as letters, manuscripts and the like, ancient relics or ruins, and secondary source documents consisting of data processed by other historians. Feudalism is thought to have originated with roman law, the word actually originates from. Latin feudum which meant fief as in an indentured servant. European societies were very divided and prone to violence, and other turmoil during the one thousand period after the fall of the roman empire and before the renaissance.
