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What does the term 'history' encompass?
What does the term 'history' encompass?
- Only written documents and oral accounts
- Only the collection and organization of past events
- Events after the invention of writing systems
- Past events and the memory, discovery, and interpretation of these events (correct)
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 oral accounts and art
- Written documents, oral accounts, art, material artifacts, and ecological markers (correct)
- Only written documents
What is considered as prehistory?
What is considered as prehistory?
- The period of events before the academic discipline of history
- The period of events before the memory and interpretation of events
- The period of events before the study and documentation of the human past
- The period of events before the invention of writing systems (correct)
What does history as an academic discipline use to describe past events?
What does history as an academic discipline use to describe past events?
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What is the nature of history as debated by historians?
What is the nature of history as debated by historians?
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