What can we know about the Past


 
 
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What can we know about the Past

What can we know about the past? There are several things we can find out what people ate, the kinds of clothes they wore, the houses in which they lived etc. We can also find out about the games children played, the stories they heard, the plays they saw, the songs they sang. We need to know our past to be able to understand our present.

There were some reasons that we learn history :

  • History teaches us to carefully examine and question facts before accepting them as the truth.
  • History educates us. we can learn from Mistakes made by people in the past.In Thus helps us make better decisions in the present and for the future.
  • A study of the past gives us a sense of identity -it teaches us who we are and who our ancestors were.]
  • We need to know our past to be able to understand our presents.Thousand of people fought and gave up their lives to make India independent .We will value the freedom we now enjoy better when we know the cost at which we obtained it. For that, we need to study the past.
  • A study of history is meant is meant to make us more tolerant and open -minded about other people and their cultures.
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