Why Study History

History is the study of the past that is gathered and put into a narration of events.It tells that tales of rise and fall of nations, the darkness that swept parts of humanity, and the inhumane mistakes nations have made. History like it or not is taught from a young age, and is incorporated into the everyday lives of young individuals curriculum, but why ? A common phrase that is said everyday is “history repeats itself” and the sentence itself answers the question of why people should study history. The study of history allows historians to make moral decisions from past mistakes, it interrelates with the basic knowledge many know today, and helps raise cultural awareness, which suggests that without the basic knowledge and study of history

In today's society the study of history is incorporated into many systems including the legal system. The knowledge from a progressive view of history and the mistakes that it causes such as war, violence, and theft allows governments to make rules, allowing the division between the good- legal and the bad-illegal. By studying history the risk of deaths, harm and violence is recognized by governments that create systems to allow peace between people and allowing those who harm others to receive a proper punishment. Historians are also essential in protecting the downfall of humanity, knowledge from diaries and newspapers show how plagues and virus can wipe out an entire race of humanity. Without this critical information society would have still been stuck in the repeated cyclical history of viruses and plagues, however by studying history it allows the development of vaccines and medicine to prevent recurrent events. The knowledge of history is essential in allowing the evolution of humanity and by learning from the past our society has become better and better by the day. By studying history not only do we prevent violence, and safety of humanity it also plays a role in understanding society, how countries can form alliances in bettering the world. The United Nations is created to protect all nations from the chaos that has once destroyed

The study of history allows people even today to understand basic concepts. Many tend to forget how history is the start of a large tower, it is the basic foundation for any concept. Building homes, stores, and buildings may seem like an everyday task, but history somehow gets involved. The history behind the land, why it could be unstable for a building all would never be understood if one does not understand its’ history. Many things interrelate to basic knowledge of history and things like the food, clothing, and way of life is taken from knowledge over tens of thousands years old. We take history and turn it into modern day tasks, we take recipes that are decades old and still make them today. These simple life tasks become not so simple anymore because more than just words on a paper appear, those words could be traced back thousands of years from a scrap piece of paper a maid has in her pocket. History now can be found in every corner, book, and knowledge, thus showing why history should be studied till the day no human can be traced. However the study of history till no human exits also shows the how the understanding of history can be traced back to questions people have today, were did humans come from, how were they made. These questions can never be answered if history was never taught, in other words history reveals the