Talk:History/Archive 4

A list of mistakes to be minded as a history teacher or historian?
cf. 5 Historical methods: "... seven mistakes that he thought that historians regularly committed". Are there no such guidelines? Herewith a kick-off:

ThySvenAERTS (talk) 07:51, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) ...Partisanship towards a creed or opinion... to sensationalize historical events and, in particular, exaggerate numerical figures...
 * 2) ...Over-confidence in one's sources...
 * 3) ...The failure to understand what is intended...
 * 4) ...A mistaken belief in the truth... he was aware that much knowledge of the past had been lost ...
 * 5) ...The inability to place an event in its real context
 * 6) ...The common desire to gain favor of those of high ranks, by praising them, by spreading their fame...
 * 7) ...The most important is the ignorance of the laws governing the transformation of human society...
 * 8) ...not taking into account the number of inhabitants, exponential évolution of population density, population growth, the impact of diseases, nr of military, natural phenomenon, climate, évolution of these numbers...