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         History is more than  what meets                      civil  war,  or  not  destroying  our  environment  like  how  the
                             the eye                           'Industrial Revolution' did. There are many examples of his-
                               Article                         tory  where  our  people  made  mistakes  and  we  learn  from

                                                               them and hope that we don't do the same thing. I felt that I
                                                               learnt a lot about cultures in history, their beliefs and their
                                       "History"  when  the
                                                               values. For example, "Did you know that in the ancient Aztec
                                       majority  of  people  and   period human sacrifices were done to a god called "Tlaloc"
                                       students hear this word   who was the rain god." or
                                       they  only  have  one   "Did  you  know  that  the
                                       thing   in    their     famous 'Sistine Chapel' in
                                       mind...BORING!!   Well   Vatican  City  took  four
                                       not  to  me  and  let  me   years  to  paint  by  Michel-
         tell you why?                                         angelo  and  he  refused  to

         History is not boring. Many people think that history is all   take help from his workers
         about  dates,  places,  rulers  and  wars.  Whereas  this  just   as  he  thought  that  their
         scratches  the  surface  of  what  history  is.  History  is  about   work was inferior to his." I could go on and on about this
         cultures,  it's about values,  it's about  languages, it's about   and give you more interesting facts on history.

         the behaviors of our ancestors and lots more.  Sometimes,
         you have to look out of the textbooks and research more. I   I feel history is such an interesting subject to learn and can
         found my love for history when I bought a fun pop-up book   make you even more curious. Currently, I listen to podcasts
         on Ancient Egypt history. It fascinated my mind and from   on different topics in history and I thoroughly enjoy it.
         there  I  researched  more,  and  more,  and  more.  I  bought
         books on famous personalities and their experiences. I used   So, maybe by the end of this, I hope I brought a change in
         to read more books on History during the library period. But   your mind about the perception of history and maybe en-
         my most favorite thing to do was go to a YouTube channel   courage  you  to  even  research  by  yourself  and  know  that
         called "Extra Credits'' and watch their animated videos on   'History is more than what meets the eye.'
         lots of eras in history.





















         I believe history is important because it teaches us not to          Mehek Aysha Suhin
         repeat our mistakes that our ancestors did. Like maybe not                         8E
         bringing up World War 3 in the future, maybe not doing a




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