Question

What is the significance of studying history?

Answer 1

Because it is from history that we learn about the presnt and the future. We can learn from the past and try not to make the same mistakes in the present.

Answer 2

So we can better understand how we got to where we are, and then have a better understanding of where we may be headed. Cause and Effect. It's how the universe works.

Answer 3

So we can see what our past mistakes were and attempt not to relive them. Although that does not seem to be stopping us, now does it.

Answer 4

so that we do not repeat past mistakes becuase of ignorance.

Answer 5

you need the past to construct a future

Answer 6

History is important because u will know the mistake of our predecessor had done and know how to avoid it.. For me, past can become the present and present can become the future..why? because in life..many things are happen repeatedly unconciously. By knowing the resemblences in life pattern, we could answer some of the question that maybe come up in our lifetime.

Answer 7

History repeats it's self. To keep from making bad mistakes that were done in the past, we can see what happened before, and then not make the same mistakes.

Answer 8

If we, as a race of human beings, do not know where, why and how we got to this point in life's history then we are bound to make the same mistakes and never evolve.

Answer 9

So one may not be ignorent to the past.

Answer 10

Because the furure is based on the past