One positive is that one can form a hypothesis and test it. History is best studied when one looks at the motives behind a character's or group's actions. By examining this and the interactions between groups, one can get a good understanding of history and put it into a larger framework.
There are some drawbacks to this method, however. People do not consistently behave, and there are no laws that consistently govern their behavior. It...
One positive is that one can form a hypothesis and test it. History is best studied when one looks at the motives behind a character's or group's actions. By examining this and the interactions between groups, one can get a good understanding of history and put it into a larger framework.
There are some drawbacks to this method, however. People do not consistently behave, and there are no laws that consistently govern their behavior. It is nearly impossible to apply a theory or law to them when their actions change over time given different circumstances. Also, events in history are not identical; in many cases it is hard to make exact comparisons. One can make predictions, but it is hard to find trends that are nearly one hundred percent accurate. Also, in history one cannot willingly repeat the experiment to test for accuracy. In many cases one hopes that history does not repeat, though a lot of the same events reoccur, only with different people and circumstances.
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