The Great Conversation

"Who controls history, and how is written, controls the past, and who controls the past controls the present"
(page IX, The Ancient Mediterranean World)

I really believe this statement is true. History, is the study of the human past, therefore if we know it we can control it, but that does not mean that the information we recolected by study it, just apply to the past. Human will always be humans, being from this era or from 2,000 years ago. We will always have questions that we cannot answer, but looking back at man with more experience that strugled with questions as well or that got to answer them could and will help us, and therefore you will have control of your present studying the past.