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What does the term 'history' encompass?
What does the term 'history' encompass?
- Past events, memory, discovery, and interpretation of events (correct)
- Events after the invention of writing systems
- Only written documents
- Only past events
What sources do historians use to seek knowledge of the past?
What sources do historians use to seek knowledge of the past?
- Only material artifacts
- Written documents, oral accounts, art, material artifacts, and ecological markers (correct)
- Only written documents
- Only oral accounts
What is considered prehistory?
What is considered prehistory?
- The period of events before the academic study of history
- The period of events before the invention of writing systems (correct)
- The period of events before the industrial revolution
- The period of events before the modern era
What does the academic discipline of history use to describe, examine, and analyze past events?
What does the academic discipline of history use to describe, examine, and analyze past events?
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What do historians debate about the nature of history?
What do historians debate about the nature of history?
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