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What does the term 'history' encompass?
What does the term 'history' encompass?
- Future events, imagination, and interpretation
- Present events, memory, and interpretation
- Past events, memory, and future predictions
- Past events, memory, discovery, and interpretation (correct)
What do historians use to seek knowledge of the past?
What do historians use to seek knowledge of the past?
- Personal opinions and speculations
- Scientific experiments and mathematical models
- Written documents, oral accounts, art, and material artifacts (correct)
- Social media and internet sources
What is considered prehistory?
What is considered prehistory?
- The period of events before the rise of ancient civilizations
- The period of events before the invention of writing systems (correct)
- The period of events before the invention of agriculture
- The period of events before the industrial revolution
What do historians debate in relation to past events?
What do historians debate in relation to past events?
What does the academic discipline of history use to describe past events?
What does the academic discipline of history use to describe past events?