when does history start?

Question

A. Presence of written records
B. Writing and Oral stories
C. Oral stories
D. None of the Above

Answer 1

D. None of the Above.

History began with the creation of the universe (Big Bang, or whatever you believe in). Just because nobody was around to record the events or tell stories about stuff happening, does not mean events did not take place.

Answer 2

My first college history professor started the class by saying "History is not the events that happened in the past. History is historian's interpretations of the events that happened in the past" (or something to that effect). The point was that history is not the simple recording of what happened.

Using that definition, you could say the first historians were those charged with passing on the oral stories because they would likely have added their own spin or interpretations with each telling. This would make either B or C the correct answer.

Answer 3

History is constantly discovered. Archaeologists are frequently unearthing "documentation" of what came before.

Since things began before man came on the scene, there were no written records or oral stories. Written language (alphabets) developed over time. Drawings came first. The URL's (below) shed some insight on the history of written and spoken language.

Answer 4

History only exists (on this planet at least) in humans' minds. Thus when you ask about history you ask about how we understand it. It has to be C. then as oral history counts of course as record and is passed on from generation to generation.

Answer 5

oral stories.

or e) - as soon as historians start changing it.

Answer 6

D. just the second ago that was just history

Answer 7

D
just because we dont no what appened then, doesnt mean it didnt exist!!!!

Answer 8

you right KEVIN.