Then why learn about nomads? Or Macedonian boat building? Or the origins of trade?
How is it relevant to our present-day society? Why should we learn about things that will not affect our lives in any way?
2007-10-06 19:18:10 · 5 answers · asked by sweeet 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
If you ask some of the sheep who occasionally graze here in this category - "yes" they will tell you. Some even know the quote from George Santayana. Many just want to answer a Trivia question and have little to no interest in History whatsoever.
Even today there are still nomads, History can trace the emergence of certain civilizations from nomads to domestication. The Macedonians and the Greeks sailed a much different Mediterranean Sea than we do today. The origins of trade, like the successes in war, are also the beginnings of what historians call "Great" civilizations, whether we can appreciate them (with all of our hindsight) or not. Those who look for, and explain, the patterns have always done much to help lift us out of ignorance.
We live in an Age of Information - yet somehow the academic pusuit of knowledge through the study of History is suspect - yet the empty pursuit of living one's life through a celebrity never is.
How is the latest news about Britney/Paris/Lindsay relevant to archaeologists, shipbuilders, or global law firms? Why should we broadcast, and read/listen to the news about individuals who have less affect on us than our teachers at school anyway??
2007-10-06 22:11:28 · answer #1 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
as quickly as you get greater into the history instructions like AP stuff and school classes, or get a level you ought to use it to make algerithamic equations only approximately to foretell the destiny. Like my brother has predicted that throughout the time of approximately 250-3 hundred years womens rights would be only approximately abolished because of the fact of diverse debts of history akin to ours.
2016-10-06 05:59:06 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pushfrog's answer is really good.
I'd only add 1) history is vastly entertaining, and 2) contributes to other intellectual understanding. E.g., Goya's painting of the Dos de Mayo makes way more sense if you know the event he is depicting, likewise The Peaceable Kingdom showing William Penn and the Indians... same applies to many plays, poems, novels, etc.
2007-10-06 19:49:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
How does it NOT affect our lives to know where we came from? Imagine, if you will, a future where history is deleted. You simply wake up one day and you're in a house with all these weird gadgets and you look as you do now. If you do not know where they all came from, how can you evolve them? How can you evolve?
Without history, you don't know where you came from, or where any of this stuff came from. The stories of inspiration, the stories of glorious heroes...
It is important to collect history not just to learn from mistakes, but to know who we are and where we might be.
2007-10-06 19:30:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you ask why people wanted to crash airplanes into the twin towers? It was because of the history they had learned.
2007-10-07 01:35:16 · answer #5 · answered by international_bicycle_thief 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋