That is not how the world works. The fact that most people is not in the history books does not mean that they were not important.
> History is for the meaningful, not the things that wouldn't even make the minor footnotes.
But, minor footnotes have changed the history of empires. A disease that moves to one person to another, and one traveler, can spread it around changing the live of hundreds, millions a few generations later, all humanity after a few centuries.
That we do not have the capacity to understand the complexity of all human interactions does not mean that it is not important. History is presented as the act of a few chosen individuals because history is told to promote national feelings, and because humans relate easily to histories of families and power.
That is not how the world works. The fact that most people is not in the history books does not mean that they were not important.
> History is for the meaningful, not the things that wouldn't even make the minor footnotes.
But, minor footnotes have changed the history of empires. A disease that moves to one person to another, and one traveler, can spread it around changing the live of hundreds, millions a few generations later, all humanity after a few centuries.
That we do not have the capacity to understand the complexity of all human interactions does not mean that it is not important. History is presented as the act of a few chosen individuals because history is told to promote national feelings, and because humans relate easily to histories of families and power.