How do historians study the past?

- cryptographer: breaks codes or study codes for example ancient egyptian symbols used in tombs

- archaeologist: dig up the past for example fossils, bones egyptian tombs et

- anthropologist: study nature like apps, monkeys, humans

-paleontologist: studies fossils

and just to add a motive is a reason why someone does something. a consequence is the result of an action. The whathappens.