In the modern day, History is a topic with stringent
qualifications. Today’s historical accounts are expected to be based purely
upon physical facts and to make an attempt to remove any kind of bias from the
work. History writing is also generally supposed to be structured into an
analytical essay or a textbook-type entry. However, recounting of history was
not always so separate from religion, oral or literal stories, or any type of
bias. The writers Herodotus and Thucydides of Ancient Greece are generally
touted as the earliest historians, but even Herodotus’s work blurs the line
between history and religion as he repeatedly references religious events and
the Trojan war in his histories. Greeks and Romans would continue to refine
their historical practices.
Much later,
during the Middle ages, people’s understanding of history was very focused on
the bible, and this was a practice that would continue mainly up to scientific
research began disproving the bible. Anyhow, history has not really developed
into its own form separate from religion, stories, and bias until the modern
era. Nowadays, it is taboo to include these things in a historical account. All
this is very reflective of enlightenment thinking, histories basis, and sole
basis should be upon real evidence, and history has developed in to topic and
field of study all its own
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