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4 Historiography
5 Philosophy of history
6 Historical methods
7 Areas of study
7.1 Periods
7.2 Geographical locations
7.2.1 Regions
7.3 Military history
7.4 History of religion
7.5 Social history
7.5.1 Subfields
7.6 Cultural history
7.7 Diplomatic history
7.8 Economic history
7.9 Environmental history
7.10 World history
7.11 People's history
7.12 Historiometry
7.13 Gender history
7.14 Public history
8 Historians
9 The judgement of history
10 Pseudohistory
11 Teaching history
11.1 Bias in school teaching
12 See also
13 References
14 Further reading
15 External links
Etymology
Ancient Greek
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(hstria) means "inquiry","knowledge from inquiry", or "judge". It was
in that sense that Aristotle used the word in his
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(Per T Za istorai
"Inquiries about Animals"). The ancestor word is attested early on in Homeric Hymns,
Heraclitus, the Athenian ephebes' oath, and in Boiotic inscriptions (in a legal sense, either
"judge" or "witness", or similar).
The word entered the English language in 1390 with the