World History Quiz

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

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

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

<p>History as an academic discipline involves using 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