" The Surprising History of the World You Never Knew! "

History is a field that seeks to understand and explain the past and the actions of humans. It is an academic discipline, a social science, and a story-telling subject. History studies the past as it is described in written documents. Events occurring prior to writing were captured through oral traditions and then written down. The discipline of history has three sources: oral sources, which include testimony of the past (i.e., tradition), humanistic sources, and material sources, such as documents and archaeological and geological records.