When working on a major project, brainstorming topic ideas is not a good step for keeping the overall scope in mind
Imposed duties are duties, the burden of which is imposed upon a person. They are those duties of a municipal corporation which are superadded to merely governmental functions, like the special private corporate duty to maintain streets in a safe condition for public travel, or the special, private corporate duty to maintain and manage corporate property so that city employees shall have safe places in which to work.
It's important that we know where and how we came to be. For example we wouldn't really understand why you're a certain religion if we didn't know who settled the land and what happened. Not only that, but also a lot of things happened back then, a civil war, WWI and WWII, the Cold war, war of 1812, that made things what it is present day. Also history makes sure that we can honor people for freedom, such as Abe Lincoln who freed slaves. The point I'm making here is that history is a way to remember important events that have effected many things and many places and without keeping track of history (for example if we didn't keep track of the Constitution) we wouldn't have the somewhat peaceful society of today.
A, because it explains a lot of the reason everything happened