[HIST 80A] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (45 pages long)

• School: Brandeis University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 80a
• Professor: James Heyward

Document Summary

Historiography is the study of how history has been written and changed. Schools of thought include world history, global history, transnational history, Transregional history, grand metanarrative, marxist history, post-colonial history, and. The need for historiography is based in part on the fact that bias exists everywhere. Thus, it is important to learn how to detect it. In the west, herodotus is viewed as the father of history; he was a greek historian who lived during the dominance of the persian empire, and was deeply interested in babylon. Another prominent early historian in western civilization is thucydides who wrote the. Peloponnesian war a classic text on war and international relations. In the east, sima qian is known as the grand historian, as he wrote the important. He is arguably the herodotus of the east" in terms of significance. These early historians focused on political and military history, a trend that would shift many centuries later.