Practice question · Multiple choice
In what sense is the prehistory/history line "drawn behind" people rather than crossed by them?
Hints
- Caesar makes Gaul "historical" by describing it.
- Did the village do anything differently that morning?
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A. Nothing changes for the people; a narrator arrives
Why
Every threshold we draw — Paleolithic to Mesolithic, prehistory to history, primitive to civilized — is a line in our filing system that we mistake for a line in the past. The people never crossed it. We drew it behind them.
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