how does history shape mans way of thinking?

Answer 1

Example... Look at how our way of thinking was before and then after 9/11. That is a prime example of history and events shaping mankind's way of viewing things. Oh, ever notice how history tends to repeat itself? Won't mankind ever lean...

Answer 2

Not for very long:

- Napolean was the Hitler of his time ... now he's just another quaint icon (with a cool hat).
- for a few decades after WW2, the world made an effort to be accepting of minorities - now everyone's sick of it, and it doesn't make much of a splash if you say the government should imprison anyone with a turban
- Vietnam seems to have faded into the distance ... enough that the USA wholeheartedly supported a war which is now costing them pooploads of money and killing thousands of American youths

So yes, history shapes mankind's way of thinking ... but not for much longer than one or two generations.

PS: If you don't believe me, just wait 50 years and ask a teenager to name a Beatles song. I guarantee you they won't be able to ... oh yeah, well name me an Irving Berlin song? I thought so.

Answer 3

Actually, mankind's way of thinking tends to shape people's perception of history.

A prime example of that is the common misconception that the American Civil War was about Slavery. While it certainly ultimately decided that issue, Slavery did not cause the Southern states to secede, and without the secession, there would have been no invasion of Virginia, and hence, no war.

Answer 4

By the way history brought civilization to his knowledge.

Were talking the breaking of ice 1,000 years ago.
It was only 200 hundred years ago that Man was becoming more civilized and continued at a rapid rate since the 1800's.

We are movinh so fast now that we are making up lost time and heading for a big bang sort of speak. DESTRUCTION of EARTH.

Answer 5

A lot of people say, "History repeats itself." Maybe it does, maybe because we never learn. We commit past mistakes over and over again. That's why history is a precursor of the future.

Answer 6

because history helps us change the things done wrong in the past. we should learn history in order to know ourselves. without history, we will not be here, we will not be in this state right now. in learning history, we would know the wrong things they've done and we at present will change it and improve on it to help avoid the wrong things done in history.

Answer 7

By looking back at the past, we will reflect and not repeat our mistakes that we had made in the future.