History Definitions

Who is a Histrorian?
A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it.



What is a Chronicle?
  1. A record or narrative description of past events
  2. Record in chronological order; make a historical record



What is Antiquity?
  1. An artifact surviving from the past
  2. Extreme oldness
  3. The historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe



Who was Herodotus?
The ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing(485-425 BC)



What is Biography?
An account of the series of events making up a person's life.