HISTORY
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Issue 88 2020
History Why Is History Important? “What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.” - Victor Hugo History is the study of the past. Studying history is important because it allows us to understand the past which in turn informs the present and the future. If we want to know why and how our world came to be the way it is, we need to look to history for the answers. When we study history, we learn how we got here. It also helps to shape our future even as we are making history ourselves. We are supposed to gain wisdom when we observe the same mistake being repeated throughout history. People often say that “history repeats itself”, but we can avoid this cliché if we study the successes and failures of the past. We need to learn from the mistakes of the past and
avoid repeating them in the present and the future. “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.” - Edmund Burke It’s difficult to pick examples to demonstrate learnings from history - no really it is, there’s just so much history out there to choose from! Let’s just pick a couple of BIG examples… Everyone will have heard about the cold war era. The cold war started in 1947 and only deescalated in the late 80s. In more recent times, historical political arguments, disputes and ‘land grabs’ have quickly escalated into conflicts or near conflicts that have threatened stability on a wide scale.
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