How do historians learn about the past

You might be wondering how historians study the past, if so you found the write blog. Historians use something called the Historical Method, there are five steps to it. The steps are; To gather, categorize, evaluate, interpret, and share. The first one which is gather, they have find many secondary and primary sources. A primary source is a source that is made during or right after an event, a secondary source is made by someone  who studied that event. After that they categorize written and non-written sources, written sources are sources that are written, and non-written sources are not written, there are only five types of them. Next they have to evaluate their sources, a good way to do that is to use the five W's, who, what, where, when, and why. Following that, they interpret their information that they have found. Lastly, they share their theories with others. That is how historians learn about the past.

In The Past , where did Humans tend to settle and Why?

In the past the people tended to go to similar places. That is so when they were there they were comfertable, or have all of the things that we need. For example, people of the past did not normally live in the mountains. The reason for that it the weather is really cold and it might not have as much grass as you need if they were herders. Herders would probably want to live somewhere where it is not really hot or cold, also they would want it to be flat with a lot of grass for their animals. People also would not want to live in a desert because they would get heat exhaustion, they would not have anough food or water, and it would be hard to make a house in because the material for it is not easy to find. Normal people of the past would usually settle in places where it is a bit cooler, but not too much, close to fresh water, and by people to buy goods from.

Here is the population of China. As you can see, there are not as many people close to the mountains.

What is History and why do we study it

History is so many things to so many people. However to me it a few things. First of all, I think it is what happened five seconds ago, or five hours. Also, history is old artifacts,or events such as, reading this sentence. .I think all of this is history because, who can tell you it isn't. Why we study history, well that is another story..... A lot of people say that they need to learn about the past so they do not make the same mistakes, but they do. I think we learn about the past to learn about the Earth, civilizations, and cultures. Also, it can help predict the future. So as you can see, we need to study the past to help the future.

As James Joyce say  "'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.'"

To me this quote means that with all the wars fights and blood you wish you have never discovered it.