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What's the difference between history and "recorded history"?

• lisper 11y ago
  Just that: recorded history is recorded. History in general may or may not be recorded. For example, the exodus from Africa is part of human history, but it is not part of recorded history. Recorded history only goes back about 5000 years or so. History goes back a lot further than that.
  • mkempe 11y ago
    What is prehistory?
    • lisper 11y ago
      It's shorthand for "before the start of recorded history", i.e. the set of historical events that happened earlier than about 5000 years ago.