ancient world history

[recon1969]

what is the form of history that attempts to view events and life from the perspective of the common people rather than the powerful, famous and wealthy"?

[spudqueen]

Social history?

[starmack]

Also oral history.

Look at Studs Terkel, author

[starmack]

Have a look at this link to start:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_Terkel

[Octavius]

Either of the above, some quarters also refer to it as 'history from below' - which is a form of social history focussing on the perspective of ordinary indivuduals within society (i.e. historically unimportant people)

The above stemmed from The Annales School of social scientific methods of history.