Practice question · Fill in the blanks
Complete the statement about the threshold.
Prehistory becomes history the moment someone leaves us a ______ — so the line sits not in the past but in our ______, and it is usually drawn by the people doing the ______.
Word bank: document · archive · writing · digging · farming
Hints
- A people enters history when someone else describes them.
- The threshold is about the observer, not the observed.
Show the answer
Prehistory becomes history the moment someone leaves us a document — so the line sits not in the past but in our archive, and it is usually drawn by the people doing the writing.
Why
Caesar makes Gaul historical by conquering and describing it. A people often enters history at exactly the moment someone else starts narrating them, which should make you ask, every time, whose threshold this is.
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