The Story of Man History is man s story. Man as in mankind or man as in, for the most part up until our recent history, the tellers of this story.
History entails the story of man s trials, progress, and failure.
Throughout its being, history has related the common theme of human greed for both power and material wealth, threaded together by the struggle for better understanding of themselves and the environment around them. This story has been told through various medias, the Vikings relied mostly on oral tradition whereas others such as the Ancient Egyptians used some form of writing to pass on their stories. All served their immediate purposes, which was most often to tell children stories of the past to teach moral lessons. For historians purposes, the written method of preserving history has been the most successful. Although the languages may be dormant, the writing is preserved in physical form that allows for a scholar to eventually understand the language and therefore interpret their stories or history .