Sacred history can be defined as a history that is spread by the word of mouth, by oral teachings as opposed to written works. People that used sacred history included the people in the ancient Near East region, Moses, David, and others in the Bible. Sacred history can be seen as more of a way to teach generations right from wrong and a way teach them lessons that needed to be learned. Scientific history, on the other hand, practiced more of the evidence gathering and analysis on the cause and effect of certain events when recording history. One man that could be called the father of scientifi...

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... common to the Story school of thought. As we move out of the medieval period and into the renowned Renaissance, we begin to see another major movement in the objective of written history. Here it can be seen that writers of history separate themselves from religious influence and begin a new territory of history writing: the Political History. In these first political writings we see major artists appear, such as Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas ... Hobbes. These two authors move away from writing for the church and direct their writing towards more secular aims. Machiavelli himself write...

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