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'''History''' is the [[study]] of past events. People know what happened in the past by looking at [[wikt:thing|things]] ''from'' the past, including records (like [[book]]s, [[newspaper]]s and [[letter]]s) and [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifacts]] (like [[pottery]], [[tool]]s, and human or animal remains). [[Library|Libraries]], [[archive]]s and [[museum]]s collect and keep these things for people to study history. A person who studies history is called a [[historian]]. A person who studies [[pre-history]] and history through things left behind by ancient cultures is called an [[archaeologist]]. A person who studies [[mankind]] and [[society]] is called an [[anthropologist]]. The study of the sources and methods ''used to study and write'' history is called [[historiography]].

'''History''' is the [[study]] of past events. People know what happened in the past by looking at [[wikt:thing|things]] ''from'' the past including sources (like [[book]]s, [[newspaper]]s, and [[letter]]s) and [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifacts]] (like [[pottery]], [[tool]]s, and human or animal remains.) [[Library|Libraries]], [[archive]]s, and [[museum]]s collect and keep these things for people to study history. A person who studies history is called a [[historian]]. A person who studies [[pre-history]] and history through things left behind by ancient cultures is called an [[archaeologist]]. A person who studies [[human race|mankind]] and [[society]] is called an [[anthropologist]]. The study of the sources and methods ''used to study and write'' history is called [[historiography]].

People can learn about the past by talking to people who remember things that happened in the past. This is called [[oral history]]. When people who had been [[slavery|slaves]] and [[American Civil War]] [[survivor]]s got old, some historians recorded everything that they said, so that history would not be lost.  

People can learn about the past by talking to people who remember things that happened in the past. This is called [[oral history]]. When people who had been [[slavery|slaves]] and [[American Civil War]] [[survivor]]s got old, some historians recorded everything that they said, so that history would not be lost.  

People in different parts of the world continue to remember events differently, just as in [[Medieval]] [[Europe]], [[Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient China]] each thought that they ruled the only important parts of the world and that other parts were "[[barbarian]]".  

In old times people in different parts of the world kept separate histories because they did not meet each other very often. Some groups of people never met each other. [[Medieval]] [[Europe]], [[Ancient Rome]] and [[Ancient China]] each thought that they ruled the only important parts of the world and that other parts were "[[barbarian]]".

== Timeline of history ==

== Timeline of history ==

** [[Ancient Greece]]

** [[Ancient Greece]]

** [[Ancient India]]

** [[Ancient India]]

** [[Ancient China]] and [[Japan]], [[Korea]], [[Mongolia]]

** [[Ancient China]] and [[Japan]], [[Korea]], [[Mongolia]]

** [[Ancient Southeast Asia]] - [[Cambodia]] - [[Thailand]] - [[Indonesia]]

** [[Ancient Southeast Asia]] - [[Cambodia]] - [[Thailand]] - [[Indonesia]]

**[[History of the United States]]  

**[[History of the United States]]  

* [[Modern History]] and origins of modern [[world power structure]]

* [[Modern History]] and origins of modern [[world power structure]]

** [[World War I]]

**[[World War I]]

** [[World War II]]

** [[World War II]]

** [[United Nations ascendance]] - how it became so central.

** [[United Nations ascendance]] - how it became so central.

** [[Chinese Revolution]], [[Partition of India]], [[North Atlantic Treaty Organisation]] (NATO)

** [[Chinese Civil War|Chinese Revolution]], [[Partition of India]], [[North Atlantic Treaty Organisation]] (NATO)

** US-Soviet [[Cold War]] including [[Korean War]], [[Vietnam War]], [[Soviet-Afghan War]]

** US-Soviet [[Cold War]] including [[Korean War]], [[Vietnam War]], [[Soviet war in Afghanistan|Soviet-Afghan War]]

** [[Recent conflicts in the Muslim World]] - [[Six-Day War|Arab-Israeli Wars]], [[UN-Iraq War]], [[US invasion of Afghanistan]], [[US invasion of Iraq]]

** [[Recent conflicts in the Muslim World]] - [[Arab–Israeli conflict|Arab-Israeli Wars]], [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|US invasion of Afghanistan]], [[2003 invasion of Iraq|US invasion of Iraq]]

** [[Recent conflicts in West Africa]] - [[Uganda]], [[Chad]], [[Rwanda]], [[Republic of the Congo|Congo]], [[Liberia]], [[Ivory Coast]], and so on

** [[Recent conflicts in West Africa]] - [[Uganda]], [[Chad]], [[Rwanda]], [[Republic of the Congo|Congo]], [[Liberia]], [[Ivory Coast]], and so on

* [[List of historians]]

* [[List of historians]]

* [[World History]]

* [[World History]]

*[[Political economy]]

* [[Political economy]]

* [[Historical novel]]

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