When did people start feeling the need to have a concept of history

Since written language was invented. We realized that human memory is unreliable so we sought for a better way to preserve information for future generations

>>2987822

Why don't you trust your own famz?

>>2987824
have you ever played telephone arabe(don't know the enlightened name of the game)? basically you and your buddies sit in a circle, you think up a phrase and whisper into the ear of the person to your right and everyone does the same until it goes full circle until it reaches you. 99.99% of the time whatever the person whispered into your ear will be drastically different than the original message. same goes with history. People forget, embellish or outright lie.

>>2987838
Chinese whispers it's called in England

>>2987855

That's pretty offensive. You're supposed to call them asian-americans.

File: history as science.jpg (99KB, 1174x314px) Image search: [Google]

99KB, 1174x314px

History as a formal study focusing on cold facts is a pretty recent phenomenon. It is a bit difficult to say when it first started but there were some identifiable trends towards it like the whole historical materialism thing with the Marxists and guys like J.B. Bury.

>>2987838
this is how organic culture happens desu
end academia destroy western knowledge

Thucydides when he whined about the silly nonfactual mystical shit in Homer works