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How can History affect our perception of reality today? We can only know from the past, we cannot know from the future, as the future has not yet come into existence. Therefore all knowledge is based upon past experience. This is where history comes into being. All perceptions of reality today, are combined from evidence from the past. History shapes reality. One of the major historical evidence today is the map. It signifies how our world looks like. However, one must realize that there are infinite number of possible maps of the world, each one having a different story of history. What does this mean? Was it not the international agreement in 1884 which fixed the prime meridian in Greenwich England. Was it not history which decided which way was the north and south pole. Mother nature didn't provide us with directions, it's us, the humans which come to decide our world....

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