What is History ?
What is History ? The study of the past is called ' History ' . The English word ' History ' is derived from the Greek word ' historia meaning research , inquiry or investigation . Thus , the knowledge acquired by investigation is known as ' historia ' . The Greek historian Herodotus ( 484 BC - 425 BC ) was the first real historian of the world . He wrote only one book ' The Histories ' ( 430 BC ) . ' The Histories ' describes the background and events of the Graeco - Persian / Greek Iranian Wars . First of all, the Roman philosopher Cicero ( 106 BC - 43 BC ) called him the Father of History ' . However, Herodotus contemporary Thucydides (c. 460 BC–c. 400 BC) is credited with having first approached history with a well-developed historical method in his work the History of the Peloponnesian War . Thucydides, unlike Herodotus, regarded history as being the product of the choices and actions of human beings, and loo...