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What is history? History is the study of the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring before written history are considered prehistory. It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as to memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation about these events. Scholars who write about history are called historians. History can also refer to the academic discipline which uses a narrative to examine and analyze a sequence of past events, and objectively determine the patterns of cause and effect that determine them. Historians sometimes debate the nature of history and its usefulness by discussing the study of the discipline as an end to itself and as a way of providing perspective on problems of the present.
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