World History Quiz

History is the systematic study and documentation of the human past, comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events.

Historians use historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers.

The period of events before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory.

<p>History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Historians debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. They also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, and its usefulness in giving.</p> Signup and view all the answers