History is the study and documentation of past events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using ancient artifacts, written documents, oral traditions, art, and environmental markers. History is also an academic field that uses narrative to explain, analyze, question, and examine past events and their causes and impacts. Stories common to a culture but not supported by evidence are usually classified as cultural heritage or legends. History differs from myth in that it is supported by verifiable evidence. Herodotus and Thucydides helped shape the principles of modern historical study.

1. History (from Ancient Greek: ἱστορία, romanized: historíā, lit. 'inquiry; know-how received via
investigation')[2] is the look at and the documentation of the beyond.[3][4] Events earlier than
the discovery of writing structures are taken into consideration prehistory. "History" is an
umbrella term comprising beyond events as well as the memory, discovery, series, corporation,
presentation, and interpretation of those occasions. Historians are looking for knowledge of the
past using ancient assets along with written documents, oral money owed, art and cloth artifacts,
and ecological markers.[5] History is likewise an academic field which makes use of narrative to
explain, observe, question, and examine past occasions, and check out their styles of reason and
impact.[6][7] Historians frequently debate which narrative nice explains an occasion, in addition
to the significance of different reasons and results. Historians additionally debate the nature of
records as an result in itself, in addition to its usefulness to provide angle on the issues of the
prevailing.[6][8][9][10] Stories not unusual to a selected culture, but no longer supported via
external assets (inclusive of the stories surrounding King Arthur), are usually classified as
cultural heritage or legends.[11][12] History differs from delusion in that it is supported by using
verifiable evidence. However, historic cultural impacts have helped spawn variant interpretations
of the nature of history that have advanced over the centuries and hold to change these days. The
modern-day take a look at of history is extensive-ranging, and consists of the take a look at of
particular regions and the examine of certain topical or thematic factors of historical research.
History is frequently taught as part of primary and secondary schooling, and the academic take a
look at of records is a chief field in college research. Herodotus, a 5th-century BC Greek
historian, is often considered the "father of records" in the Western lifestyle,[13] even though he
has also been criticized because the "father of lies".[14][15] Along together with his present day
Thucydides, he helped shape the principles for the present day have a look at of beyond
occasions and societies.[16] Their works stay study today, and the space among the culture-
centered Herodotus and the navy-targeted Thucydides stays a factor of rivalry or method in
present day ancient writing. In East Asia, a nation chronicle, the Spring and Autumn Annals,
become reputed to this point from as early as 722 BC, despite the fact that only second-century
BC texts have survived.