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What does the term 'history' encompass?
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?
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?
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?
What does history as an academic discipline use to describe past events?
What do historians debate regarding the nature of history?
What do historians debate regarding the nature of history?