How Can You Relate History To Different Areas Of K

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Shivika Poonglia Grade 11 How can you relate history to different areas of knowledge and ways of knowledge? Explain the uses and limitations in relation to them. Giving appropriate examples to support your answer “What is History?” Is it just some event that has taken place in the past that we learn about in textbooks? History is deeper than that; history has a big impact on our day-to-day lives. History is not just about learning about an event, or how it took place, where it took place? History goes beyond that. The facts are important but another important thing is how has that event impacted us, what is its relevance to us in today’s times. History can be related to different areas of knowledge and is not just limited to it. History is also influenced by the ways of knowing. When history is written there are many factors that influence history including the ways of knowing. There’s a lot that goes into writing history. The event takes place, primary sources or witnesses take note of it, research is done and many factors such as reason, perception, imagination, and culture influence the ‘making’ of this history. Even after this long process we do not know the validity of history and hence many questions are raised when studying history. History has influenced different spheres and areas of knowledge and this can be seen through some changes made in this modern world. History is just not limited to itself as an area of knowledge. Science for example too has been influenced by history. We can relate history in many ways to science. The history of science itself, from the many scientific proofs and theorems, which have been proved and tested, are made record of and are used for further research. Keeping a history of scientific discoveries and theorems is also important because as science progresses there may be times when those theorems will be needed to

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