prehistory is before and history is now
Recorded history is history that has already happened and prehistory is history that is about to happen.
The difference is that prehistory and history aren't the same definition and word
history
The significant difference between prehistory and history is prehistory is history to old people that has happened now for example and iPhone is problaly an artifact to very old people.
PREHISTORY
pre history pre historythe time before writting was invented is called prehistory.
Prehistory is all that period before people started recording their history.
The writings are the history, so prehistory is before writing.
'Pre', or before, and History form the word prehistory, so "Before - History" History is mostly a made up idea from humans, and it is written history that is "History" So yeah. Before written history, like the other answer to this question.
history
history and pre-history is the same cause it talkes about history
it is because prehistory was written in a different way