History (from
Greek ἱστορία ,
historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation")
[2] is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.
[3][4] Events occurring before written record are considered
prehistory. It is an
umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Scholars who write about history are called
historians.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. [1]
—George Santayana
<span>History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") [2] is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. [3] [4] Events occurring before written record are considered prehistory. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of information about these events. Scholars who write about history are called historians.
History can also refer to the academic discipline which uses a narrative to examine and analyse a sequence of past events, and objectively determine the patterns of cause and effect t Summary
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