Everyone, at one time or another, has been told stories about the past. We always enjoy listening to stories about what our fathers and ancestors did. Men have lived on the earth for thousands of years; over this period they have been involved in countless events and in countless activities. All over the world, things are happening everyday. Some of these things not important; many, however, are very important, because they greatly affect the life of the place where they occur.
[The record of important events which have taken place in the past is what we mean by ' history ']
Nobody can, of course, study everything which has take place. Indeed, if a person lived for over 100 years, he could not learn half of all the things which have happened even in one little village. What we, in fact, do is to choose and study just the most important events. We leave out millions of other things which are of every little importance in the life of man.

WHY SHOULD WE LEARN HISTORY?

It is a fact that many students do not like to study history at school. If you love history as a school subject, can you tell why you like it? If you are among the millions of school-children who do not like history very much as a study, what are your reasons? Many students who do not like history at school give different reasons for their dislike of the subject. Some say that the subject is too difficult. They say that they cannot learn lists of events, dates, names of person, battles and wars. Nor is it school-children alone who show a strong dislike for history. Some people, learned in other subjects, seem to dislike history. What is the use of learning history at all? Of what use is the study of events which have taken place thousands of years ago? What god can it do us to study the life stories of people who have died centuries ago? Why must we study their way of kiddi the kind of clothes they wore, the food they ate, the way their houses were built, the tools they used, their way of thinking, the battles they fought, and so forth? These are some of the questions which many adults who do not like history often ask. They fait to see much in use in the study of these things. Eg. Girls of now a days. Of courses, to be told simply that a Odioko Aro Meshack was born on such and such a date and died in such and such a year; or, that the Fante went to war against the Asante in the last century and that so many thousands people were killed; or that, in ancient times the people of Zaria province in Nigeria lived on top of hills-only gives up the facts.
The study of history, however, is far more than this as we shall see in the course of this chapter.

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