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c research, many European scholars from the 16th century onward systematically collected sources for their histories. In the 18th century all facets of civilization were included in a historiography of sweeping intellectual scope, although some of the era39。s historians displayed a rather careless evaluation of evidence. With the work and influence of 19thcentury historians, history achieved its identity as an independent academic discipline with its own critical method and approach. By the 20th century, history was firmly established in European and American universities as a professional field, resting on exact methods and making productive use of archival collections and new sources of evidence. In recent years, historiography has been affected by the belief that no accumulation of facts constitutes history as an intelligible structure and that no historian can be a totally objective recorder of reality. Furthermore, the scope of history has expanded immeasurably, both in time, as archaeology and anthropology have provided knowledge of earlier ages, and in breadth, as fields of inquiry such as economic history and the history of ideas have emerged and refined their methods and goals. Time ______ (530 words) 11. Historians try to sort through the facts to discover patterns of meaning because ________.( C ) (a) their concern is to collect and record facts (b) they can find something new every time (c) the facts may be inplete or biased (d) the facts need to be renewed all the time 12. Historical facts are usually known through ________. ( B ) (a) events that historians themselves have witnessed (b) written and unwritten intermediary sources (c) intellectual interpretation created by historians (d) testimony from living witnesses 13. Of early Western historiography, ________ seemed to be the most influential. ( C ) (a) Roman historians (b) Christianity (c) Greek historians (d) monastery 14. The fall of the Western Roman Empire took place in ________ century. ( A ) (a) the 5th (b) the 15th (c) the 16th (d) the 18th 15. Which of the following statements is true? ( D ) (a) Accumulation of facts constitutes history as an intelligible structure. (b) History had its greatest achievement in the 19th century. (c) A historian did not bee a profession until the 20th century. (d) There has been a scope expansion of history both in time and breadth.