What is history? Why do we study history

history means past and we study it to know what happened before

history means his story . history is the story about a man who lived 2000 years ago

history means what our ancestors did . we should know that right.

History literally means his+story and we need to study history to understand the past of ordinary people, there could be some chances of great stories like Ramayana and Mahabharata which took place long long long ....... ago.We can also find their intelligence back then. Like they founded the number (0).