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According to the "Father of History", the word "history" means .

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to inquire
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to research
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to write
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to draw
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Solution

The correct option is A to inquire
Herodotus named his book "Histories", which in Greek means "inquiries". This refers to the inquiries that he did in order to check and verify all the data that he was writing.

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