The word history comes from the Greek historia which in turn comes from the Proto-Indo-European word wid-tor, from the root weid, to know or see. This root is also present in many modern words such as wise, wisdom, idea, witch, vision, and others. The Greek word itself means, inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation And our English word history is defined as a chronological record of the past events relating to a particular thing, as in human history or, history of philosophy, or the much shorter, history of the internet There are three main types of history: written records