<s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 9 topics, 29 evergreens, 3 sources</em></s> #### <s class="topic-title">[[history]]</s> > [!wikipedia] [history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History) > > History is the study and the documentation of the past. > > Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. > > History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the present. > > History differs from myth in that it is supported by evidence. However, ancient cultural influences have helped spawn variant interpretations of the nature of history which have evolved over the centuries and continue to change today. > > Events before the invention of writing systems are considered [[prehistory]]. > ##### ^dataviews > [!dataview]+ Related unlinked notes > > - [[1968 was a major setback for the American left]] > - [[Are humans special]] > - [[Empires are born through conquest and maintained by bureaucracy]] > - [[How religions are formed]] > - [[Human settlement allowed for social order to rapidly evolve]] > - [[Most traditional food culture is relatively new]] > - [[Native Americans died in droves to European diseases]] > - [[Social control prevents Americans from practicing personal freedom]] > - [[Sumerian math gave us 24 hour days and 360 degree circles]] > - [[Sumerians invented writing to store large amounts of data]] > - [[Teenage boys are responsible for much of cave art]] > - [[The French Empire fell because of a stock market bubble]] > - [[The Great Gatsby was popularized through mass distribution to soldiers in WW2]] > - [[The Inca empire was maintained without a full script writing system]] > - [[The capitals of Roman and Mayan empires were the same size]] > - [[The first recorded name might have been an accountant]] > - [[The last American slave wasn't freed till 1942]] > - [[The materialistic view of religions examines why humans invented and clung to religion]] > - [[Wall street used to be an actual wall]] > - [[We suck at naming things]] > - [[What is the origin of social hierarchy]] > - [[Why did Eastern Empires not engage in colonization as vastly as European Empires]] > - [[Why history is important]] > [!dataview]- Other unlinked mentions > > - [[notes - What is achievement]] > - [[10_Sources/Readwise/Tweets/tweets - I’m Planning to Go to Si...|tweets - I’m Planning to Go to Si...]] > - [[10_Sources/tweets - I’m Planning to Go to Si...|tweets - I’m Planning to Go to Si...]] > - [[topics]] > - [[Inca Empire]] > - [[emotions]] > - [[etymology]] > - [[farming]] > - [[internet]] > - [[polytheism]] > - [[human experience]] > - [[A secure worldview is the best defense against existential dread]] > - [[Gender is a social construct]] > - [[How to understand the brain]] > - [[Most cultural differences are rooted in material differences]] > - [[Our biology has not significantly changed for thousands of years]] > - [[We are confined to the tools of our time]]