Question

PLZ HELP ME!!Looking at bias and point of view is especially important when studying events in world history. In one or two paragraphs, explain why you think this is true. Also, explain why it might be particularly challenging to study bias and point of view in world history.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Regardless of whether they are conscious or learned implicitly within cultural contexts, biases have been part of historical investigation since the ancient beginnings of the discipline. As such, history provides an excellent example of how biases change, evolve, and even disappear.

Early attempts to make history an empirical, objective discipline (most notably by Voltaire) did not find many followers. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, European historians only strengthened their biases. As Europe gradually dominated the world through the self-imposed mission to colonize nearly all the other continents, Eurocentrism prevailed in history.