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Discuss the value of using history as a guide to contemporary affairs to predict the future and as a propaganda tool. According to the Greek philosopher Ephorus, he saw universal history as a struggle for world power.

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Have a little read: ... T.O.K-ESSAY Discuss the value of using history as a guide to contemporary affairs to predict the future and as a propaganda tool According to the Greek philosopher Ephorus, he saw universal history as a struggle for world power. Today the value of history is mostly as a propaganda tool for current affairs but I would say that it couldn't be used to predict the future. History has been used for many reasons. One very important uses of history is to learn from our past mistakes but we some how forget that. World war one took place. We intended to learn from it then few years later World War 2 took place. We haven't found the proper use of history because I believe that we are looking at history from different views. It is said "history is what one generation finds of note in other" I have always believed that history cannot

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