What is the study of past events called?
Q: What is the study of past events called?
A: The study of past events is called history.
Q: Who are historians and what do they do?
A: Historians are people who study history. They look at things from the past, such as sources, buildings, and artifacts to learn about what happened in the past.
Q: Who studies pre-history and ancient cultures?
A: An archaeologist studies pre-history and ancient cultures by looking at things left behind by those cultures.
Q: What is an anthropologist?
A: An anthropologist is someone who studies mankind and society.
Q: What is historiography?
A: Historiography is the study of the sources and methods used to study and write history.
Q: How can people learn about the past?
A: People can learn about the past by talking to people who remember things that happened at some point in the past (called oral history), or by looking at things from the past including sources, buildings, artifacts, etc.
Q: How were different parts of the world connected in old times? A: In old times different parts of the world were connected even if they didn't realize it because rulers of Medieval Europe, Ancient Rome and Ancient China each thought that they ruled only important parts of the world while other parts were "barbarian".
