What you'll learn

• Collection of data
• Interpretation/ analysis of evidence which could be biased, fragmented or partly incorrect
• Try to discover the pattern of meaning to enduring questions of human life.
• 2nd Century BC Greek Historians including Polybius saw history as a struggle for power among nations
• -Christian and Muslim Historians (e.g. Ibn Khaldum) saw history as working out of divine plan
• Hegel saw history as Gods purpose working out mans freedom
• In 19th Century Historians see history as working towards the progressive triumph of science.
• African History saw history as an instrument of Nationalism.