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How can we Define History?
It can be seen as such a simple term but at times broad as any past experience can be considered history. A certain part of your life that has ended has now become a historical event from which you have learned something and has helped you avoid any cognition or negative outcomes in the future. The reason I ask this question is that many people define history in different ways. From my perspective, it is something that has happened in the past and it has helped us learn something that has some value as it helped someone why and how this came to be.
The experts say that history is the study of past events which may have had a major impact or influence in some way shape or form. I see history as much more than that, true it is something that must be analyzed in-depth in order to get a better understanding of why and how things unfolded the way they did. A war begins for a reason and can end for another. Such as the words of powerful men can start the chaos. The chaos that ends up killing people that had the potential in their lives to come up with even a cure for cancer or other deadly diseases.
From the way that our minds have been engineered in schools when we hear the word history, we think of an event that implies black and white images in our minds which has taken place a long time before the internet was invented. Some people think that an event must be 10 years old…
