Putting history into context allows us to comprehend our species in increased detail. History is a topic that most people will have been taught in school, which is the research of humanity's past. A tremendously similar but distinct subject is historiography, which is the research of the techniques employed by historians. Historiography is very im

Putting history into context allows us to understand our species in more detail. If the whole existence of humanity was plotted upon a timeline then the entirety of our written documented history would sit on a little speck at the end. The written word only developed a few thousand years back and though it was quickly utilised as a device of artis