Answer to Question #133520 in History for Nisha

Question

what is history

Answer 1

History comes from the Greek word ‘historia’ meaning inquiring;( knowledge acquired by investigation). Events that involved the study of things that occurred before the invention of the writing system are considered to be prehistory. It is an umbrella that relates to past events as well as those of the recent.History can be defined as a branch of knowledge that deals with past events.it is also a continuous systematic narrative of past events as they are relating to a particular person, a country, and a period. It is a pursuit common to all people in the society .it is usually written in the chronological account. history has no accounts of reference.History includes the academic disciplines that use narrative to describe and examine a sequence of past events.