4. Explain the second reason that history is important.
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The second reason history is important is that what happens in the past changes what happens in the present. History is inescapable because the present becomes the past. ["The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction." -Penelope Lively][1] By studying history, we can learn why something is happening today.
