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History

History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline.…

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History

Nodes387
Edges386
Triples232
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.005168
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related to By geographic location · 33
History → Africa, African, Africans, Americas, Amid, Ancient, Areas, Asia, Atlantic, Axum, BCE, Beginning, Carthage, CE, Egypt, Europe, European, Geography, Ghana, Islam
related to Evolution of the discipline · 29
History → Another, BCE, Before, China, Chinese, Confucian, Early, Early Roman, Epic, Gilgamesh, Greek, Herodotus, Herodotus's, Histories, Homer, In, India, It, Mahabharata, Mesopotamia
related to Etymology · 15
History → Ancient Greek, At, Classical Latin, European, French, German Geschichte, In, In Hellenistic, It, Italian, Middle English, Old French, Roman, The, They
related to Synthesis and schools of thought · 14
History → Another, As, Bronze Age, Constructing, Conversely, For, In, Iron Age, It, One, Silences, Stone Age, The, While
related to By period · 12
History → Africa, Americas, Chinese, Chronological, Columbian, Depending, Different, For, It, Subsequently, The, Towards
related to Others · 12
History → Big Bang, Big History, Certain, Closely, Comparative, Counterfactual, It, Marxist, Some, The, Unlike, World
related to Other fields · 11
History → Anthropologists, Archaeologists, At, Before, Genetics, Geology, Historians, Historical, The, Their, This
is a · 10
History → branch with the broadest scope, broad discipline encompassing many branches, broad field investigating social phenomena, history of ideas and studies how concepts, key to understanding the present and, linear, representation of the past in the form of a history text, social science or forms part of the humanities, study of the past with the main focus on the human past, systematic study of the past
related to Education · 10
History → Assessment, By, Early, In, It, More, Some, Students, They, Traditional
related to history · 9
History → According, Another, Historically, In, Insights, It, One, Some, The

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historical historians past events sources evidence also narratives social study writing century cultural methods economic philosophy general different world source

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Historyis asystematic study of the past0.90text
Historyis abroad discipline encompassing many branches0.90text
Historyis astudy of the past with the main focus on the human past0.90text
Historyis arepresentation of the past in the form of a history text0.90text
Historyis asocial science or forms part of the humanities0.90text
Historyis akey to understanding the present and0.90text
Historyis abroad field investigating social phenomena0.90text
Historyis ahistory of ideas and studies how concepts0.90text
Historyis abranch with the broadest scope0.90text
Historyis alinear0.90text
Historypart ofthe social science or humanities curriculum at most universities0.85text
archaeologyinstance ofIt results in an interdisciplinary approach relying on other forms of evidence from fields0.80text

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