it is important to understand history?

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Is it important for us to understand history? Why or why not? Responses should be 1-2 pages in length; Word Document format; 12 fonts; double-spaced.

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Usually, the word history is defined as the process of knowing and studying the past events and past human behaviors. According to my point of view, it is very important to study history as it gives us knowledge about past human behaviors which are related to mental, intellectual, emotional and physical growth of an individual. Furthermore, studying the past events gives us knowledge that how this world came to existence and what were the major factors that caused the creation of this world as well as human beings on this planet.

History does not give the knowledge only about human beings; rather it also helps to understand the natural and cultural differences among the human beings (Fukuyama, 2011). In my opinion, someone can understand the conflicts among world’s regions as well as nations through learning about the cause and effect relationships in history.

Another important reason to study history is that history teaches us to “think”. History helps to contemplate all the past experiences for all nations regardless of whether it is American, European, Asian, African or French etc. History is important for all and it is considered as the heritage of nation. Mostly, history is considered as the record of past events but in my opinion, history is more than past events, time or places. It is history that enables us to answer most mysterious and greatest question of universe that is “Humanity” (Carr & Evans, 2013).

Furthermore the differentiation between good or bad and ethical or unethical is also result of various historical events. In conclusion, I will like to say that study of history is compulsory to keep the individuals of a nation motivated and aware about their glorious past. Without understanding history, it is very difficult for a nation to survive and develop.

References:

1. Carr, E. H., & Evans, R. J. (2013). What is history?

2. Fukuyama, F. (2011). The end of history? The national interest(16), 3-18.