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   historically

   /hɪˈstɒrɪkli/

   adverb

   • 1. with reference to past events: "a historically accurate picture of the time"
   • ▪ in the past: "historically, government policy has favoured urban dwellers"

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › HistoryHistory - Wikipedia

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   3 days ago · History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. [6] [7] Historians debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects.

3. www.britannica.com › topic › historyHistory | Definition & Discipline | Britannica

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   Jun 14, 2024 · History, discipline that studies the chronological record of events, usually attempting, on the basis of a critical examination of source materials, to explain events. For the principal treatment of the writing of history, and the scholarly research associated with it, see historiography.

4. www.britannica.com › browse › World-HistoryWorld History Portal | Britannica

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   2 days ago · History provides a chronological, statistical, and cultural record of the events, people, and movements that have made an impact on humankind and the world at large throughout the ages. Browse Subcategories.

5. worldhistorycommons.org › primer-defining-worldPrimer: Defining World History | World History Commons

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   3 days ago · World history is the study of the past at the global level. World historians use a wide spatial lens, though they do not always take the entire world as their unit of analysis.

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   What is history?

   • History is the study of the human past as it is described in the written documents left by human beings. Here are a collection of more history definitions...

   What is History? - History - LibGuides at Cape Fear Community College

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   What is an example of a history?

   • Examples of these histories include deaf history, the history of movies, the history of Arabia, the history of science, the geologic history of Earth, the history of the organization of work, the history of logic, the history of early Christianity, and the history of coffee, among many others.

   History | Definition & Discipline | Britannica

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   Is history the same as history?

   • In modern German, French, and most Germanic and Romance languages, which are solidly synthetic and highly inflected, the same word is still used to mean both "history" and "story". Historian in the sense of a "researcher of history" is attested from 1531.

   History - Wikipedia

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   What is human history?

   • Human history is the memory of the past experience of Homo sapiens sapiens around the world, as that experience has been preserved, largely in written records. By "prehistory", historians mean the recovery of knowledge of the past in an area where no written records exist, or where the writing of a culture is not understood.

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7. www.britannica.com › topic › world-historyWorld history | Definition, Theories, Historians, & Facts

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   Jun 14, 2024 · World history, branch of history concerned with the study of historical phenomena that transcend national, regional, or cultural boundaries or distinctions between peoples or with the study of history from a global, comparative, or cross-cultural perspective.

   • Author: Richard T. Vann

8. libguides.cfcc.edu › HistoryWhat is History? - History - Cape Fear Community College

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   6 days ago · History Definition. History is a narration of the events which have happened among mankind, including an account of the rise and fall of nations, as well as of other great changes which have affected the political and social condition of the human race.—John J. Anderson. 1876. A Manual of General History.

9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Human_historyHuman history - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · Human history is the development of humankind from prehistory to the present, understood through the study of written records, archaeology, anthropology, genetics, linguistics, and other forms of evidence.