KPDS 1994-1 Soru=100

According to the passage, the study of history ---- ---- .

Dates and periods are necessary to the study and
discussion of history, for all historical phenomena are
conditioned by time and are produced by the
sequence of events. Periods especially, are
retrospective conceptions that we form about past
events; they are useful to focus discussion, but very
often they lead historical thought astray. Thus, while it
is certainly useful to speak of the Middle Ages and of
the Victorian Age, those two abstract ideas have
deluded many scholars and millions of newspaper
readers into supposing that during certain decades
called the Middle Ages, and again during certain
decades called Age of Victoria, everyone thought or
acted more or less in the same way- till at last Victoria
died or the Middle Ages came to an end. But in fact
there was no such sameness.