Why is it important to know    about the past?

Importance of learning history
History as a subject 
Why we should learn history ?

For many people, history is dry and boring: it smells of dust settled on old books in libraries. However, history can be very exciting. It is very portant to know a lot about the past because by doing so we can understand today's world better. It is not as important to learn the dates and the years of events as it is to understand the cause of such events. History then becomes very interesting, no matter whether you are learning about ancient Egypt or China, the Roman Empire, or the Persian wars. It is also interesting to know why so much knowledge of earlier times was forgotten in the medieval ages. After the medieval period, everything developed at a very fast pace-the industry, weapons, and so on. Wars occur even today as they used to occur in earlier times.

Why is it important to know about the past?

Past helps us in understanding our present world in a much better way. If we know how our ancestors lived or why the wars were waged, we can understand the today's world better and get ideas for a fairer future. What appears to us as wrong today could have been right earlier. It is also interesting to know how inventions in the past improved the life of humans. Some major inventions that changed the way we live are: metal processing that was invented around 5000 BC and the invention of the calendar, without which we cannot determine when the important events happened in the past.