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    16-630-Librea - GE1210 LESSON 1

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    Speculative history refers to historians adding details or events to actual history to make it more exciting or complete gaps. It is relevant for several reasons. Speculative history allows historians to examine initial assumptions about life's meaning and purpose. It also gives people reasons to learn history by making it more understandable. Additionally, speculative history helps people preserve their identity and deflect blame for instability, which some may see as a failure of the past. Overall, history is broad and complex, so speculative additions are meant to provide a more meaningful narrative that can answer questions about the past.

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    Speculative history refers to historians adding details or events to actual history to make it more exciting or complete gaps. It is relevant for several reasons. Speculative history allows historians to examine initial assumptions about life's meaning and purpose. It also gives people reasons to learn history by making it more understandable. Additionally, speculative history helps people preserve their identity and deflect blame for instability, which some may see as a failure of the past. Overall, history is broad and complex, so speculative additions are meant to provide a more meaningful narrative that can answer questions about the past.

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    Speculative history refers to historians adding details or events to actual history to make it more exciting or complete gaps. It is relevant for several reasons. Speculative history allows historians to examine initial assumptions about life's meaning and purpose. It also gives people reasons to learn history by making it more understandable. Additionally, speculative history helps people preserve their identity and deflect blame for instability, which some may see as a failure of the past. Overall, history is broad and complex, so speculative additions are meant to provide a more meaningful narrative that can answer questions about the past.

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    Speculative history refers to historians adding details or events to actual history to make it more exciting or complete gaps. It is relevant for several reasons. Speculative history allows historians to examine initial assumptions about life's meaning and purpose. It also gives people reasons to learn history by making it more understandable. Additionally, speculative history helps people preserve their identity and deflect blame for instability, which some may see as a failure of the past. Overall, history is broad and complex, so speculative additions are meant to provide a more meaningful narrative that can answer questions about the past.

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    Aljunex A.

    Librea –BSBM 2D

    QUESTION: WHAT IS SPECULATIVE HISTORY AND WHY IS IT RELEVANT? (150-


    250 words)

    A history is a past event where we can gather many memories, facts, and circumstances that we
    use as our enlightenment as we build our future. Speculative history is an opinion of our
    historians. What they do is that they create or they add some events in a detailed history from the
    past to make the actual content of history exciting or to make it as a whole. In a nutshell, we
    cannot say that our history is entirely exact and real. Humankind, especially historians, is very
    conscious about the exact details or what happens in particular events in our history. That is why
    our historians are eager to create speculative history to make our history more relevant and
    exciting to learn without giving evidence. In this sense, we can say that our history is not more
    history but a term called speculative history. They add, and they develop history to manifest our
    understanding of history. Our historian's intentions are evident that they wanted us to think
    meaningful about our history. We are not only studying history for the purpose of education but
    also to enlighten ourselves that our history provides a meaningful reason or lesson for our
    progression. I know that we have questions about the happenings in our history; that is why
    historians' primary purpose is to make speculative history to answer our questions and discover a
    lot of theory to complete our history.
    In answering why speculative history is relevant, historians' interest is to answer the question
    "what's the point of life" in general, because the progress of human life depends on history and
    the learnings that we acquire, and especially our principles. As a human, we have different
    reasoning; other's understanding seems correct. Still, others may be wrong. That is why
    speculative history allowing us to examine our initial assumptions regarding the value or futility
    of such 'ultimate' questions. And the other answer is to give us a reason to learn a speculative
    history because it is worthwhile or understandable. Speculative history is relevant for us because
    they wanted us to preserve our own identity and deflect blames. The instability of the present is
    unpleasant and perceived as resulting from the failure.
    For me, our history is a broad thing that no one can provide an accurate description of. Even our
    historians create speculative history to provide a meaningful history that can answer our history
    questions. I think history is comprehensive, where even Frenchman Voltaire could not give
    detailed descriptions about what happened in our history.

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