Perspective

One of the most important things that you have to think about when you are learning about history is what perspective you are looking at it from.  What is being exaggerated, left out, or misreported.  You also have to think about what is fact and based off of analysis of remnants from an event.  It is very hard to get exactly what happened, and that is why we must analyze today.  To try to determine why things happened.  This can help you make a better decision in the future.  History is just a story of what happened, and it can be affected by who is telling it.  (For example, Norways role in WWII is completely left out, possibly due to the misreport of a reporter who said that they "rolled over.")