History
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Historians use many types of sources, including written or printed records, interviews (oral history), and archaeology. Different approaches may be more common in some periods than others, and the study of history has its fads and fashions (see historiography). The events that occurred prior to human records are known as prehistory.
A criticism of history as a field has been that it has too narrowly focused on political events or on individuals. Deeper and more significant changes in terms of ideas, technology, family life and culture have received too little attention. Recent developments in history have sought to redress this.
It should be noted that the term 'History' is not used to represent the entire history of our species, but events that have occurred since the agricultural revolution and the appearance of civilizations, the past 10,000 years or so. Events that occur before this time are lumped together under the term prehistory (which covers more than 99% of our species' time on this planet), despite no change in the genetic make up of pre and post-historic humans.
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Classifications
Main article: Historical classification
A very large amount of historical information is available, and several different ways of classifying it are given at the main article.
School Topics
- Ancient Civilizations
- Ancient Near East
- Medieval History
- History of the United States
- History of Europe
- History of the Middle East
- History of China
See also
- Archaeology
- Archontology
- Contemporaneous corroboration
- Evolution of Homo sapiens
- Human evolution
- Social Change
- Historian
- List of historians
- List of historians by area of study
- List of historic travellers
- Revisionism
- History painter
Student Activities
History Clipart and Photographs
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