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While reading From Herodotus to H-net by Jeremy D. Popkin, I realized how far historical writing goes back. When i think of people in the past, and their accounts of significant events in time, i almost do not trust what they are writing. I have this idea that these people were too primitive in their thinking because they believed in gods and goddesses, that they mixed fact and fiction, because they did not know any better. I see now that their were historians in the past that analysed and asked questions about events of their time. One example that Popkin uses is the historian, Ibn Khaldur. He like us asked questions regarding historiography. He questions, “partisanship toward a creed or opinion, ‘over-confidence in one’s sources, a failure to understand a sources true meaning…” (Popkin 42). These are some of the metrics historians today use to figure out primary sources and what they have to offer. In @daisysolorio post she says, “Popkin mentions that both Herodotus and Thucydides are important to modern history because without them the format of history would have been very different”. She mentions another example of historians of the past developing what we call historiography. Without historians of the past like Ibn Khaldur, and both Herodotus and Thucydides we would not have the same understanding of history that we do today. The story of how historical writing developed into what we know today is very interesting. From Europe to Asia and all throughout time historians would ask the same questions historians of modern times would ask.