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Epic card · Science
History, an Epic card
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 92
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 186
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 780,000
Power 186 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
History quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the History card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
As an ______ discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened.
Answer
academic. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. From the History article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ludwig Wittgenstein. Ludwig Wittgenstein 95 · History 92 · Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 89 · Thomas Edison 86 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 2,300,000 · Thomas Edison 1,300,000 · History 780,000 · Actin 38,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened.
- Some theorists categorize history as a social science, while others see it as part of the humanities or consider it a hybrid discipline.
- Similar debates surround the purpose of history, for example, whether its main aim is theoretical, to uncover the truth, or practical, to learn lessons from the past.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The History article was read about 780,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 92 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get History
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below History in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- ArthropodEpic · Nature · ATK 90 DEF 96
- Brown bearEpic · Nature · ATK 89 DEF 97
- Tokugawa IeyasuEpic · Society · ATK 96 DEF 90
- AshokaEpic · History · ATK 91 DEF 95
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, History (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Carstian Luyckx, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
