AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY
Historians cannot know everything when investigating a historical fact, they will need the help of many other sciences to be able to carry out his work in a more precise and rigorous way, that is, more scientific.
-Among many of the sciences that collaborate with History, among the most prominent is Geography, whose purpose is to describe the Earth, soils and climates where the human being has been located, helps us to understand the relationship between Man and the environment.
-Chronology, helps us to date, to locate the events in time. The starting point used to count time is the birth of Jesus Christ, so everything that happened before that event is called before Christ, and is abbreviated BC.
-Archeology, studies the material remains of the past, for example, monuments, sculptures, and other objects built or used by Humans.
-Geology, studies the terrestrial globe, both its origin and the formation of the materials that compose it, that is, it tells us the history of the Earth.
-Anthropology is the science that studies man, both physically, socially and culturally.
-Paleontology, study the fossil remains of organic beings.
In addition, the historian will benefit from the contributions of sciences such as Chemistry, Biology, Linguistics, Numismatics (analyzes old coins and medals), Economics, Sociology, Social Psychology, among many others. The more advances all sciences make, the better for the study of History.
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