Five One of the problems with the history standards is the regard in which history as a profession is held.
Historians go back through the ages, taking records and accounts of trials and triumphs of the past.
The word history is derived from the Greek word for inquiry. The Greeks are credited with the founding of history as a subject of inquiry into the past. From the Greek historians such as Herodotus and Thucydides history has developed in many different manners and been viewed in many different ways through to the present day. It has been seen as both cyclical and linear, and these views have altered back and forth through to the nineteenth century. History rose as a profession in the 19th century and developed into the field it is today.