Is History Created by ‘the People’ or by Individuals?

History is created by ‘the people’. History is the events in the past. The people are a group of individuals and they are what create history. The people elect leaders and what the leaders do is what makes up history. Also it takes a group of people for events to occur, not many things occur with just one person it takes a group of people. Greece specifically is an example because the events in Greece’s history show it took the people to create history individuals. For these reasons history is created by the people not individuals.

                People elect leaders who create history. There is not just one leader but many leaders. These leaders happened because a group of people elected them. This is a mark in history that people created. A group of U.S citizens elected Obama for president this is a part of history and was created by a group of people. Although history may be about one person it was created by a group of people. These leaders like presidents do things like create laws and govern and protect the people. For laws to be created they have to be passed by other people first. That makes creating a law a group effort. All the people had to work together to create this which is one way the people created history. Like the quote “there is no I in team,” said by many people like Michael Jordan. This means there is not one person who is the leader. It takes a group of people for things to occur. Not one person, the I, can make things happen they use help from people along the way. In our government for things to occur they have to be consulted with many different people first not one person can override everyone. Although one person may be credited with something they had to get help from people along the way. That means a group of people really helped for that thing to be created or done. For example inventors may think of the idea on their own but they are going to use other people’s help throughout the way. They may also use other people’s ideas.  Not one person can make history. History is events that occurred in the past. In order to have history you need to have more than one event.  These events will be pulled from what people do throughout time. The people and what they do will create history.  One person may make one event in the past but all the events that occurred will make up history. That is pulling together what everyone did and all of these people would make up a group.  Many of times the events in history are not created by one person because everyone works together to make that event occur.  For example a war may make up an event in history. For this event to occur two or more people will have to fight or battle to make a war. Most of the time it is one group of people fighting against another group of people and this creates a war. Not one individual made the event occur but everyone fighting in it did. For these reason history is created by people not individuals.

                Historical events from ancient Greece will even show how history is created by a group of people. Some important things that occurred in Greece’s history happened because of a group of people. Some important historical events that occurred in Greece were things  such as Alexander the Great becoming king. Also many wars occurred like the Peloponnesian war, and the Persian War. Last events like first Olympic games occurred. All of these things happened because of a group of people not one individual. Alexander the Great became king because of his dad, he inherited this place of high power because of his dad. His dad was king before him and when he died Alexander became king. It took more than one person for Alexander to become king and that was a major event in Greece’s history. The Peloponnesian war was a battle when Athens fought Sparta. This was a major war in Greece. It was a very large war that had three stages or parts to it. It was a major war that went on for a long time. This war greatly affected the Greek world and reshaped it. This war led to many other events in the history of Greece. This means that the events occurred because of the war so these events happened because of many people and other events not one individual person like many other major, important events in Greece. This war was two groups of people fighting each other so many people were involved in causing this historical event.  Another major event was the Persian War. The Persian War was a series of conflicts. All of these conflicts were put together to make the Persian war. The Persian war was not an individual event but took many of people to occur. All of these people had to participate to make this happen not one person could be a war. These are some major events in Greece’s history and past that show history is created by a group of people not just one person.

                History is created by the people not individuals because it takes a group effort for things to happen. Every person who has done something important in history has used the help of others. Not one person can do it all. Also history is a makeup of many past events and these events are not all created by the person. Greece is a specific place you can look at. In Greece’s past events their history is created by ‘the people’ not individuals.                 

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