American history honors. Why is history important?

Question

So,my Honors teacher is going to make us write two essays answering these following questions.Why is history important? Why should we study history?
I'm not going to write my whole essay just the introduction,can you please tell me if i should add anything or suggestions.
Why is history important?
History is important for various reasons.One being that history contains information from the past.If we do not know our past causes and effects we're unable to know how everything today is what it is,and History provides us with that vivid information.History is not only important but interesting in ways that it shows us changes over time.For example many years ago,the houses we now live in we're most likely now located where they are now.History changes over time,perhaps not as fast but it sure changes and drastically,it does.For a fact due to scientific researches we know that there were several creatures back then,that no longer exist such as dinosaurs.

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Sorry,guys I only gave a bit of the introduction for the first question.Since I didn't have any characters left.Should I exclude that plan of essay and perhaps add more higher vocabulary words,since this is a Junior High school American History Honors class?

I'm asking if my essay is okay.but thank you for the opinions.

Answer 1

Old Lady, I beleive you're greatly mistaken. It was Georges Santatyana who said, "those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it," and not Jean Paul Sartre.
To Oreo, history is a good, rock-solid foundation for the field of liberal arts. Why study it? Why not quote Cicero? To be ignorant of one's past is to remain forever a child.

Answer 2

Mention the Crusades as the European's first real exposure to multiculturalism that would set them and the world on a path to globalization still in progress a millennium later. The Renaissance was of course an outgrowth of that multiculturalism due to re-exposure (courtesy of Islam on one of it's good days) to many of the classical texts, eastern (Islamic & Byzantine) architecture, etc., and the New World colonization also being an outgrowth due to the huge benefits encountered by long distance trade but at the same time being blocked from direct contact with Asia due to Muslim control of the near East land routes. The technologies of the Renaissance allowed for the conquest and, as importantly, the publicity/promotion of the New World, a printing press not distinguishing with whether it's printing a text of Aristotelian ethics or a new map of the world or a ship's rudder or an account of easy gold and free land in a new European world (like the colonies in Outremer [French Palestine] had granted in the Crusades, which brings it circularly- many of the same economic factors sired the Crusades as sired the New World colonization]).

Answer 3

You might include Jean Paul Satre's classic quote, that those who do not study history are doomed to re-live it.

Answer 4

It's a good stepping stone to being a lawyer, journalist, or teacher.

Answer 5

those who do not understand history, are doomed to repeat it's mistakes.

Answer 6

so we can learn from it