Question

define the term history. what forms the basis to write history

Answer 1

Answer:

• The Greek word was borrowed into Classical Latin as historia, meaning "investigation, inquiry, research, account, description, written account of past events, writing of history, historical narrative, recorded knowledge of past events, story, narrative".

Transitive closure of child genre: People's history

Professions in this field: Historian

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

History is the study of life in society in the past, in all its aspect, in relation to present developments and future hopes.

History consists of making arguments about what happened in the past on the basis of what people recorded (in written documents, cultural artifacts, or oral traditions) at the time. Historians often disagree over what "the facts" are as well as over how they should be interpreted