Journey Through Time

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Which term is used to describe the period of events before the invention of writing systems?

  • Ancient history
  • Contemporary history
  • Modern history
  • Prehistory (correct)

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

  • Religious texts and sacred scriptures
  • Personal opinions, rumors, and conjectures
  • Scientific experiments, mathematical equations, and computer simulations
  • Written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers (correct)

What does the term 'history' encompass?

  • Fictional stories, myths, legends, and folklore
  • Current events, news, updates, and social media posts
  • Future events, predictions, speculations, and imaginations
  • Past events, memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation (correct)

What do historians debate about the nature of history?

<p>Whether history is an end in itself and its usefulness in giving meaning to the present (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main purpose of history as an academic discipline?

<p>To describe, examine, question, and analyze past events (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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