Importance of Learning History

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Importance of Learning History Learning history is an essential part of one’s life. History provides historians lessons about the past. Also learning history of different cultures would help a person to interact with others. In addition, a student can learn about the origins of languages and systems that he or she still uses today. Even though a lot of people are not aware of it, history occupies a big part of our life. One of the primary reasons learning history is to learn lessons about the past. People in the past worked hard and thought beyond to make their lives easier. Sometimes, their great inventions astonish us. The Egyptian Pyramids, one of the greatest architecture projects throughout history, cannot be fully explained by our advanced technology. The Pyramid is an enormous structure, and people at that time did not have any modern equipment such as excavators and forklift trucks. It is surprising how Ancient Egyptians made a strong structure without advanced equipment. There are many different cultures and countries in the world. Everybody is dissimilar and everybody has his or her own backgrounds. However, people having different backgrounds live in the same place and need to understand and accept each other. Learning history of different cultures would help one to interact with others. There was an international student and she went to a school having several students from different countries. She was close with them, and learned a lot about their cultures and sentiments such as Thanksgiving and Halloween. After several years, she went to the United States to study and she relatively adjusted at a new environment better than other students. A lot of people do not realize it, but a lot of systems that are being used are from Ancient Greece. The ideas of democracy and freedom are from ancient Greece. Peisistratos was a person who tried to
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