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Form 1 Introduction to History and Government Lessons

In this course, we are going to focus on introduction to History and Government which is a Form 1 topic. Some of topics covered include:
1. The meaning of History
2. Periods in History
3. Branches of History.
4. Meaning of Government.
5. Sources of Information in History and Government
among others

Lessons (18)

• 1.    Meaning of History and Characteristics of Historical Events
  8m 24s

• 2.    Lesson on Branches of History
  4m 4s

• 3.    The meaning of government and the arms of government
  4m 22s

• 4.    The forms of government, reasons for studying history
  16m 49s

• 5.    Importance of studying government
  9m 47s

• 6.    Source of information on history and government
  10m 51s

• 7.    Advantages and disadvantages of oral traditions as a source of information.
  9m 59s

• 8.    Advantages and disadvantages of linguistics as a source of information
  14m 44s

• 9.    Advantages and disadvantages of using anthropology as a source of information
  10m 54s

• 10.    Advantages and disadvantages of archaeology as a source of information
  11m 54s

• 11.    Methods used by archaeologists to discover archaeological sites
  7m 20s

• 12.    Methods of dating fossils
  24m 21s

• 13.    Advantages of using unwritten sources of information on history and government.
  11m 16s

• 14.    Written sources of information on history and government.
  8m 6s

• 15.    Advantages of using written records as a source of history
  4m 42s

• 16.    Limitations/disadvantages of Written sources of history
  4m 22s

• 17.    Electronic sources of information on history and government
  0m 0s

• 18.    Limitations/disadvantages of using electronics as a source of information in history and government.
  5m 6s