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1. History helps us understand the world: History enables us to understand how the world worked then and how it works now. History provides us with the framework of knowledge that we need to build our entire lives. It takes us closer to happenings and events in the past we can know about and learn how things have changed ever since, and who were the figures and personalities that helped change the scenario. 2. History helps us learn of world events: Our world has bore witness to countless incidents of importance or otherwise. If one has to know of any of these happenings or events that changed the world, he has to dive to the depths of history books to know why a certain event happened. There is no better way to know the world like the back

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