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WHAT IS HISTORY?
So what is history? History is what people were in the past. And science, which studies the past, is also called history.
We live in a world that is constantly changing. Every day in our country and in other countries of the world thousands of events occur. We learn about this from the broadcasts of television, radio, newspapers, magazines.
What is happening today, now, with you, with your relatives and friends of our whole country, is being accomplished in the present.
What happened last month, a year and many, many years ago, was in the past.
The events that are taking place today, in the present, are connected with the past. History can be figuratively compared to a thread on which thousands and thousands of events are strung. There is even the expression "the thread of time." History thus links the past, the present and the future.
Оften called the memory of the people. How our ancestors lived? How we resembled them, and how we settled? mastered and defended our country?
These and many other questions are given by history.
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