WHAT IS HISTORY? The word HISTORY derives from the Greek term "istoria", which means interview, interrogation of an eyewitness, and also refers to the results of these actions. We also find in the Greeks the word "histor", which is translated as judge, person who knows, and the word "historeo", which means to search, search, examine. The word after Greek, passed to other languages, especially through Latin. History as a science, was born in Greece, in the 5th century BC, a culture that comprised a geographical area greater than the present one, from the south of the Balkan Peninsula, islands of the Aegean Sea, and coasts of Asia Minor. Therefore, the Greeks absorbed influences from other cultures and clashed with other civilizations. Herodotus (484-425 BC) History arises as a need to explore and discover the nature of the cosmos and the known world, peoples and men. Therefore, it is in Greece where it is born as an activity dee...