What was the most interesting part of this article? What are you most interested in for studying world history?
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Intro
Nothing should be studied without a use
Rote memorization used as a status symbol, but shouldn't
History's memorization isn't the big part
Understand
Helps us view the past and analyze what has/hasn't worked
good for large descisions where experiments aren't feasable (elections etc)
Can be called "our labratory" to understand how society functions and do a large scale analysis
Change
Helps us understand what has/hasn't changed, and causes
ex. teen suicide rate, why, has it always been so high etc
We can analyze the parts that have changed and parts that have and see net benefeits etc
Importance in our lives
helps with entertainment
provides an enchanting view of the past
Moral
helps us get a moral understanding of the past
how people worked through moral dillemas such as slavery
ordinary people who protest also etc.
Identity
How countries formed
can study your family and gain an identity
gaining a rich past identity is better than a shallow current view
helps community etc.
Citizenship
provides international stories and otther examples crucial for good citizenship
understand how changes might affect people in the future
helps us understand our nations values and morals
Becomes an informed petitioner, leader, and voter
Skills
Ability to assess evidence
Assess conflicting information
assess past examples of change
How it is useful in work
gives range and flexibility
broad understanding
improves basic reading, writing, and speaking skills
can explain trends
to understand human experience and look at history as a lab
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The most interesting part about this article is the way it focuses on history as more of a lab, where you can look at test civilizations and effects of different actions. I feel this view is a great one, which allows people to improve upon past mistakes, and make informed descisions when implementing new policies that we can only speculate about. For world history, I'm really interested in studying about the political side of things, because it can provide us with answers to some of todays problems and difficulties. This is because we can analyze what past civilizations have done, and try to find parallels to our current day. I feel like that would be fun to do, and it would be interesting to see what we come up with.