ToK chapter 10

pluralistic history

accepting that there are various different perspectives that may be justified, and multiple possible accounts of the past

communism

a political and economic system in which there is no ownership of private property nor class divisions

primary source

any object or written source from the time or based on the time being studied, for example the eyewitness account of a soldier fighting in the Second World War would be a primary source even if it was written fifty years after the event

secondary source

a second-hand account of a historical event, such as a history textbook

synthesis

the placing together of different parts or elements (evidence) to form a connected whole