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What does the term 'history' encompass?

  • Historical sources and ecological markers
  • Past events and the memory, discovery, and interpretation of these events (correct)
  • Events after the invention of writing systems
  • Only written documents and oral accounts

What is considered as prehistory?

  • The period of events before the collection of artifacts
  • The period of events before the invention of writing systems (correct)
  • The period of events before the study of history
  • The period of events before the academic discipline of history

What sources do historians use to seek knowledge of the past?

  • Only material artifacts and ecological markers
  • Only art and written documents
  • Written documents, oral accounts, art, material artifacts, and ecological markers (correct)
  • Only written documents and oral accounts

What does history as an academic discipline use to describe past events?

<p>A narrative (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do historians debate regarding the nature of history?

<p>The nature of history as an end in itself and its usefulness (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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