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What does the term 'history' encompass?
What does the term 'history' encompass?
- Events after the invention of writing systems
- Past events, memory, discovery, and interpretation (correct)
- Only written documents and oral accounts
- Artifacts and ecological markers
What do historians use as historical sources?
What do historians use as historical sources?
- Oral accounts and ecological markers
- Written documents, oral accounts, art, and material artifacts (correct)
- Artifacts and written documents
- Only written documents
What is considered prehistory?
What is considered prehistory?
- The memory and interpretation of past events
- The study and documentation of the human past
- The period of events before the invention of writing systems (correct)
- Events after the invention of writing systems
What does history as an academic discipline use to describe past events?
What does history as an academic discipline use to describe past events?
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What is the nature of history as discussed by historians?
What is the nature of history as discussed by historians?
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