modern history

Define the following concepts (post in comments):

autocracy

industrialisation

revolution

democracy

socialism

nationalism

liberalism

Read the following quotes about history.

“Whoever controls the past controls the future; whoever controls the present controls the past.”
- George Orwell

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
- David McCullough

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
- Etienne Gilson

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
- George Bernard Shaw

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- George Santayana

Patriotism ruins history.
- Geothe

History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.
- Henry Ford

Prep questions:

1. Which of the above quotes best describes history?

2. Write 2-3 paragraphs explaining:
a. the areas of history you have studied
b. the periods/personalities that most interest you; and
c. why you think history is an important area of study.

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