The historian who thus far seeks answers to such questions as who or what and when and where must then consider the question why or the meaning of his data. The Greeks, who used the word historikos as another term for history, thought of history in this sense as the product of inquiry. This suggests interpretation as a fourth meaning for history. This is the subjective reconstruction of the past in the light of the data, the historian’s own biases as well as the “climate of opinion” of his time,