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48"The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten."

--does not acknowledge groups of individuals who were equally important
--ignores the importance of society's influences
--does not acknowledge the full extent of difficulty and conflict that occurred

In most history documents, what we can get are lots of history about those famous individuals about who were they and what they had done. But it will be difficult for us to find out some documents about groups of people in the same period about what they thought about and what they had done. When we conduct analysis on the revolution early in the 20th century, Chairman Mao will naturally be focus. When we study the physics, the image of Newton who when he was sitting under an apple tree and one apple hit his head will come out. But the ordinary peoples have long been forgotten, those people were with the great power, represented the trends of history, and made most significant events in history.   
  
It is so common that most focus was put into the famous individuals in our history study. With focusing on individuals, the students can remember those stories fast and maybe more interesting.  But on the other hand, it also brings some problems to the students, such as it is difficult for them put independent stories into a whole scope. Sometimes what they can remember are the famous names but not the history and what are those stories indicate.

What we should notice is that the groups of people who had long been forgotten were those who were equally important to those great individuals. Just the ordinary person showed what most people thought, what puzzled them most, and what the trend of history. As the history in China, groups of peasants came together to revolt the king in the Qing dynasty because of the despotic rule. As the history in French, groups of citizens who revolted the government take by the Bastille because of the anxious to freedom. As in history in American, thousands of slaves and citizens wake up to against the slavery because they believe that all human being were with equal right. The history of our human being is not only created by historians but by the public. In some degree, the great individuals only showed parts of the history, but those ordinary people are powerful and are the motive of the development of our history.

The groups of people show great power and wisdom which are so important for all human being. Still now, our scientists puzzled about how the pyramid was made by the Egyptian, how old Chinese can build the Great Wall, what is the really function of Maya temple and what kind of technology they took use to make up it and so on. Lots of miracles were made by “nobody” in history. If the history was not only full of famous people’s story but also focused on those ordinary people’s life, the historians not only wrote about the individuals but also the public then today we could unveil those masterpiece in our human history and learn much more which could help us know more about yesterday, today and the future.

From what has been discussed above, we can conclude that the groups of people should be offered   more notice than before. What we can learn from the public in history is not only the history itself, but also the wisdom accumulated thousands of years, the brave sprits and courage which can contend to the inequality in society.