The whole story was based around the idea that David was this small little boy that took down this huge giant, with the help of God behind you. ... Moses's whole life is just an extremely elaborate story about how God works in every ones lives. ... Scientific history was a better source to prove why different things happened throughout the ages, through studying the specific details from events that occurred in the past, to understand if they caused other things to happen. ... At least in the example of Thucydides, the theories he used in stating history involved more the facts of history...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Herodotus Herodotus was born in the small Ionian Greek town of Halicarnassus. ... Everything that happened was either the work of satin or God. God directed all human action and some people stray and are in need of guidance. Our histories of Bede are very biased towards God. ... His aim was to tell how things happened and not preach his religion. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

While the lists of rewards and booty collected from the different towns seem long, a closer look reveals the towns to be of small sizes with small numbers of people, indicating a rather easy conquest for the Egyptians - no wonder Thut-mose III carried out so many campaigns, they must have been fairly easy to undertake. So while, on the one hand, the many campaigns show the strength and determination of Thut-mose III, the army usually only conquered small towns so they only seemed to be big conquests. ... Egypt had a good source of written information in such things as king lists, annals, royal...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

History succeeds when it tells us how things really were, and it reminds us that the only access we have to that past is through the imagination of a contemporary person. ... They wanted to justify the ways of God to man and vice versa. ... Besides these tragedies, other things influenced the historiographical terrain to shift. ...

• Word Count: 2043
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate