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List of historical classifications

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A chart depicts different types of historical study on a colorful timeline. The Roman Empire is the primary focus of the chart, along with other European histories.
A chart of the relationship of historic cultures to time and territory (1769).


Historical classification groups the various history topics into different categories according to subject matter as shown below.

Meta-history

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By geographic region

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By geographic subregion

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By times

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By general time period

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See also Periodization.

By religion

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By nation

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By topic, miscellaneous

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Mathematics and the natural sciences

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Social sciences

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By ideological classification (historiography)

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Although there is arguably some intrinsic bias in history studies (with national bias perhaps being the most significant), history can also be studied from ideological perspectives, such as:

A type of historical speculation known commonly as counterfactual history has also been adopted by some historians as a means of assessing and exploring the possible outcomes if certain events had not occurred or had occurred in a different manner. This is somewhat similar to the alternate history genre of fiction.

Lists of false or dubious historical resources and historical myths that were once popular and widespread, or have become so, have also been prepared.