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Cuneiform writing began in Mesopotamia
Herodotus is considered to be the father of history. Herodotus was the first to record a historical event and that was the Persian War.
Some called Herodotus the first historian.
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Herodotes of Halicanarssus, he was called thus because of his Historiae, which was one of the first tries at writing objective history.
He was famous for writing what really happened in the past.
The two founders of Greek historical writing were Herodotus and Thucydides. While they had different styles, they attempted to be truthful and forthright.
The "Father of History," Herodotus, wrote about food and what people ate in around 460 BC. Probably people in other cultures were doing the same thing even earlier.
History, as a subject of study and writing, was founded by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus.
Herodotus was a Greek Historian who lived from 484 BCE to 425 BCE. He was one of the first writers to bring together historical accounts with a vivid narrative. He is mostly known for his writing of The Histories.
It was his appeal to history and his way of writing it in prose in "histories". At the time everything was written in verse.
According to Herodotus, the Phoenicians brought writing and Papyrus - an old writing material, similar to our paper - to Greece. The Greek word for papyrus as a writing material is biblion and the word for book is Biblos.
Herodotus was a Historian.
Herodotus is a/an Historian
Herodotus's full name is simply Herodotus. Herodotus was born in 425 BC and is known as the Father of History.