In my opinion, I think history gives similar learning to us because regardless of people's country, they usually pursue similar value like love, peace, wealth and health. Of course, there are a lot of humans who are totally different from each other, which might be looked too different from local people. I guess this is why some people insist that students should focus on their local past than world history. They lived a similar patterned life, which might teach more desirable ways to pupil...