History is the study and documentation of past events. Historians use various sources like written records, oral accounts, artifacts, and environmental markers to gain knowledge about the past. History is also an academic discipline that uses narratives to describe, analyze, question, and examine past events and their causes and impacts. Historians debate the interpretations of events and the nature of history as a subject. The modern study of history includes specific regions and thematic areas of research. Herodotus is often considered the 'father of history' for helping establish principles of modern historical research and analysis, though he has also been criticized.

1. History (from Ancient Greek: ἱστορία, romanized: historíā, lit. 'inquiry; expertise received
through research')[2] is the have a look at and the documentation of the past.[3][4] Events before
the invention of writing systems are taken into consideration prehistory. "History" is an umbrella
time period comprising beyond occasions in addition to the memory, discovery, collection,
enterprise, presentation, and interpretation of these occasions. Historians searching for
knowledge of the past the usage of ancient assets inclusive of written files, oral money owed, art
and fabric artifacts, and ecological markers.[5] History is also an educational area which uses
narrative to describe, look at, question, and examine past occasions, and inspect their styles of
purpose and impact.[6][7] Historians frequently debate which narrative first-rate explains an
occasion, in addition to the significance of various causes and outcomes. Historians also debate
the character of records as an lead to itself, in addition to its usefulness to give perspective at the
issues of the prevailing.[6][8][9][10] Stories not unusual to a specific lifestyle, however not
supported via outside resources (together with the testimonies surrounding King Arthur), are
usually categorised as cultural history or legends.[11][12] History differs from fable in that it's
far supported with the aid of verifiable proof. However, historic cultural affects have helped
spawn variation interpretations of the character of records that have evolved over the centuries
and preserve to exchange nowadays. The modern have a look at of history is wide-ranging, and
includes the observe of precise regions and the examine of certain topical or thematic elements
of historic research. History is frequently taught as part of number one and secondary education,
and the instructional have a look at of records is a primary area in university research. Herodotus,
a fifth-century BC Greek historian, is often considered the "father of records" in the Western
culture,[13] although he has also been criticized because the "father of lies".[14][15] Along along
with his present day Thucydides, he helped shape the principles for the cutting-edge examine of
beyond occasions and societies.[16] Their works stay study today, and the distance between the
subculture-focused Herodotus and the army-targeted Thucydides remains a point of competition
or approach in cutting-edge historic writing. In East Asia, a country chronicle, the Spring and
Autumn Annals, was reputed to date from as early as 722 BC, although only 2nd-century BC
texts have survived.