Obviously, people were aware of history a long time ago. History means the past in its totality, to which we rarely pay much attention. We subdivide this into many areas, for example, the history of politics, social classes, painting, families, theology, feminism, France, and tourism, to name just a few. We will discuss the evolution of views of history and why these views have become so contentious that in our own era men and women, and racial and gender groups try to establish and control history for their own purposes. In our conclusion we will discuss how history can resolve these dilemmas.
History is retro-causal probabilities in paradigmatic sequences.
This means that we focus not on individuals but their roles. Even Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar are trivial unless we understand the expansionary nature of Greek or Roman society. We do not denigrate individual acts but we assume they could only occur inside a paradigm or a framework. Real history begins with the Big Bang and human history begins in Africa. Although we usually assume that history is produced only after the coming of writing, we don't know when writing began.