### person:

Historian
* Many historians claim that earlier humans hunted and ate animals
  - consider the Tang period the golden age of Chinese civilization
  - teach in colleges and universities
* Most historians argue that cities are the vehicles of culture.
* Some historians argue that there was no economic decline in the tenth and eleventh century.
* Some historians believe that economics is one powerful motive for the perpetuation of racism
  - sexual excesses and disease helped reduced the birth rate
  - pursue careers in researching, writing, and editing history
  - study embryology
  - think that tennis was once played with clubs and stones
  - try to keep historic buildings and sites from changing
  - work with ecologists
* are aware of many eclipses that played an important role in shaping world events
  - experts in cause and effect
  - famous for citing objectivity in their research
  - interested in change, and in how it happens
  - omnivorous when it comes to evidence
  - prone, like most people are, to opinions based on their own experiences
  - scholars
* believe that by reading the past, they are able to predict the future
  - pagans originally marked the day with agricultural and fertility rituals
* can become editors rather than writers.
* claim that Mongol-style wrestling originated some seven thousand years ago.
* confirm that history is cyclic, and that events repeat themselves from time to time.
* deal with dates and sequences of dates
  - the goals, fears, interests, opinions, and prejudices of people in the past
* describe and analyze the past through writing, teaching, and research
  - situations
* divide the Scyths into various sub-tribes according to their way of life.
* do tend, for ease of identification, to append biographical labels to periods of history.
* estimate centuries
  - results
* explain success.
* find information
  - things that all cultures and civilizations have in common
* generally agree that history proper begins when humans began to communicate by writing
  - study the lives of people as recorded in written documents
* go back through the ages, taking records and accounts of trials and triumphs of the past.
* have degrees
  - different values and come to the material with different beliefs about the world
  - education
  - master degrees
* however understand religion as the cause of events which are the results of beliefs.
  - corpi
  - material bodies
  - personality
  - sections
* interpret and analyze the history of our world.
* look at institutions to find differences between eras or periods.
* often describe how events unfold or how one set of circumstances changes
  - disagree about what to regard as the beginning of The Middle Ages
  - evaluate the positive and negative aspects of past civilizations
  - interject their own beliefs and biases when they write about the past
  - study and preserve archival materials
  - tend to assume that societies are bounded and homogeneous
  - use information that other historians have written
* read and write, research and teach.
* say climatic change has contributed to the collapse of civilizations
  - that religion has been the major motivating force in all of human history
* speak of the twentieth century as the age of nations and nationalism.
* study environments.
* support ideas.
* trace the ancient origins of written expression
  - history of dancing back to ancient Egypt
* typically identify political eras according to the dominant party of the times.
* use a variety of methods, tools, and techniques to find out about the past
  - documents to create pictures of their re- constructions of the past
  - primary sources to discover and interpret the past
  - scientific processes to learn about ancient cultures
  - two main types of sources in their research, primary sources and secondary sources
* view vectors of change through the eyeglass of social, political and economic forces.
* visit areas.
* work full time
* write history to make meaning out of what they think other people have experienced.
+ Berserker: Norse mythology
  * Old Norse literature said they fought in a wild, trance-like fury. This later gave us the English word 'berserk'. Many Old Norse sources say that berserkers were real. Most historians believe that berserkers worked themselves into a rage before battle. Others think they might have eaten drugged foods. The Ynglinga saga said they charged their enemy without any armour. Also that they were as mad as wolves. They could kill the enemy with a single blow of their sword while neither fire nor iron could hurt them.
+ Boulder, Colorado, Geography: County seats in Colorado
  * Boulder Creek flows through the City. Boulder Creek was named a long time before the city was built. It was named after the big granite boulders that have fallen into the creek over the years. Historians think that Boulder City was named after Boulder Creek. The water in Boulder Creek comes from melting mountain snow and small rivers West of the city. Boulder Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River.
+ History of India, The Magadha empire, Hun invasion
  * With this the Gupta dynasty came to an end. Most of north India became badly affected by this invasion. However, Huns could not go up to the Deccan and the southern parts of India. These parts remained peaceful. No one knows definitely about the fate of Huns after end of the sixth century. Some historians believe that they mixed up fully with the Indian people of that time.
+ Holy Roman Emperor, List of emperors, Emperors before Otto the Great
  * Some historians say the Carolingian Empire was the start of the Holy Roman Empire.
+ Institution: Social sciences
  * Historians look at institutions to find differences between eras or periods. They sometimes judge political and military events by the effect that they had on institutions.
+ Learning disability: Disability :: learning
  * Sometimes people think that adults with learning disabilities are stupid or have a mental illness. However, they can often deal with their difficulties by doing things in different ways. Some people with learning difficulties can be very clever, they just take in information at different than average levels. There are various levels of learning disability. Some historians think that some important historical people had learning difficulties.
+ North Korea, History, Early History: Divided regions
  * Historians think that the Korean people have lived in the area for thousands of years. Before 1910, Korea was one country. It had a king and people were mostly farmers. The country was peaceful and was not communist. In 1910, that changed. Japan and Russia went to war.
+ Perestroika: Soviet Union :: Mikhail Gorbachev
  * This happened only a few years before the Soviet Union fell apart into 15 countries. Many historians argue that it was a major reason that the Soviet Union fell apart.
+ Reichstag fire: 1933 :: Arson :: Nazi Germany
  * Historians still have no idea about the planning of the fire or who did it. It is still an ongoing topic of research.
+ Scallop, Symbolism, Fertility symbol: Bivalves
  * One legend of the Way of St. James says that the route is a kind of fertility pilgrimage. It could be made when a young couple desire to have children. Historians believe the pagans first used the scallop shell as a symbol of fertility. Sterling Publishing Company.
+ Tribal Hidage, Origins: Anglo-Saxons :: History of England
  * Historians are mixed when it comes to where the document came from originally. It may have been written by Paulinus for King Edwin of Northumbria. It may have been created for the use of Offa of Mercia. Cyril Hart, 'The Tribal Hidage', 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society', Fifth Series, Vol. Historians are not certain what the exact reason was for creating the list. Most seem to agree it was probably a tribute list.