d. According to a well-known adage, 'history is written by the victors'. How different do you think it would be if it were written by the losers instead?
If history were to be written by the losers then we would have no progress. when history is written by the victors they usually glorify their success. not only do they tell the story on a somewhat reliable way but they also tell why they won and how they did it. it is true that most of the time they omit the shameful details of for example genocide or the atrocities committed in war, but they have a larger view. history is written by them for a simple reason. almost no one takes pride on failure. one could say that the losers should write the history so then we could learn from the mistakes, but if so, one could never learn from the good things in life. if one has learned from the mistakes of the loser and then becomes the victor one would not be able to teach the rest through history the good things achieved.
also progress is made, at least in some parts of the human behaviour by trying to overcome the achievements of someone else. if we knew nothing of those achievements how could humanity advance?
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