History vs. Prehistory

Historynoun

The aggregate of past events.

Historynoun

The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.

Historynoun

(countable) A set of events involving an entity.

Historynoun

(countable) A record or narrative description of past events.

Historynoun

A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

Historynoun

A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

Historynoun

(informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

Historynoun

(uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.

Historyverb

(obsolete) To narrate or record.

Historynoun

A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information; a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a legislative bill.

Historynoun

A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; - distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, observation, and memory.

Historyverb

To narrate or record.

Historynoun

the aggregate of past events;

Historynoun

the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future;

Historynoun

a record or narrative description of past events;

Historynoun

the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings;

Historynoun

all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge;

History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning ) is the study of the past. Events before the invention of writing systems are considered prehistory.

Prehistorynoun

(properly) History before written records, inclusive of both

Prehistorynoun

The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.

Prehistorynoun

The study of those times.

Prehistorynoun

Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.

Prehistorynoun

The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.

Prehistorynoun

the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word

Prehistory

Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the invention of writing systems.