Drag each tile to the correct box.
Match each discipline with the appropriate historian.
Herodotus
Gerda Hedwig Lerner
Sima Qian
Ibn Khaldun
Simon Schama
wrote the history of the Arabs and
of the Berbers from North Africa
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first Chinese historian to separate
history from astrology
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wrote several books on cultural
and intellectual history
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the founder of women’s history who
also studied anthropology and
archaeology in America
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regarded as the “father of history”
because he was the first person
to systematically study and write
about historical events.
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Explanation:

Ibn Khaldūn. Ibn Khaldun was an Arab scholar of Islam, social scientist and historian who has been described as the father of the modern disciplines of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography. He was born May 27, 1332 in Tunis, Tunisia and d ied on March 17, 1406 in Cairo, Egypt. He was educated at Ez-Zitouna University, Mosque and University Karaouiyn.

Ibn Khaldun:  Wrote the history of the Arabs and of the Berbers from North Africa.                                                                                                                      Sima Qian:  First Chinese historian to separate history from astrology.                                                                                                                Simon Schama:  Wrote several books on cultural and intellectual history.                                                                                                                     Gerda Hedwig Lerner:  The founder of women’s history who also studied anthropology and archaeology in America.                                                                                                                 Herodotus:  Regarded as the “father of history” because he was the first person to systematically study and write about historical events. It's good that you're studying historians!  Historiography (the study of the writing of history) is an important field for us to explore as we consider what history means and how it is reported.