Sea level (or the water level when there are no waves) is referred to as

Historians are researchers of the past or people who understand the history of people. with this field, they must possess qualities such as being unbiased, patient, efficient reader, has a knack for logic and critical thinking and reasoning, disciplined, open-minded, resourceful, with good analytical ability, good reasoning skills and problem solving!

They contributed many things, but here are some examples:

1) democracy - democracy as a political system was first implemented in ancient athens
2) some advances in mathematics - such as the pythagoras' law
3) the script - the roman script was adopted from ancient greek.