History

What is history?

What is History? The aggregate of past events. Simply put history is the story of mankind, of his accomplishments and struggles, merged in the study of past events.

History is the study of past events particularly in human affairs that is preserved or remembered of the past especially in written form: the whole series of a continuous systematic narrative of past events in relation to a particular person, family, people, country and/or period in regard to someone or something.

History is usually a chronological record of events, as of the life or development of a people, institution, nation, civilization, and/or race, often including an explanation of or commentary on those events. It is formally the branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events; moreover, it is the discipline of recording and interpreting past events involving human beings.

Further it comprises past events relating to a particular thing, the aggregate of past events and/or human affairs, an interesting past, and something that belongs to the past. Furthermore, history consists of the acts, ideas, and/or events that will and can shape the course of the future.

The word history derives from the Middle-English word ‘histoire’, from Old-French, from the Latin word ‘historia’, from the Greek word ‘στορία’ or ‘historia’, meaning ‘inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation”, from ‘histor’, meaning ‘learned man’.

In this book, the reader will explore history as it applies to the world and my family/ancestors, which is broken out in three sections: Modern Time, Medieval Times and Ancient Times. Also, there is a brief overview of the history of Brea—my hometown!