history vs life

history and life both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
history	Yes	No	No	No
life	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, life is a hyponym of history; that is, life is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than history:

history (noun)	life (noun)
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings	living things collectively
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge	animation and energy in action or expression
a record or narrative description of past events	the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
the aggregate of past events	an account of the series of events making up a person's life
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future	a motive for living
	a living person
	the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
	the condition of living or the state of being alive
	a characteristic state or mode of living
	the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living
	the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
	the period between birth and the present time
	the period from the present until death
	a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives