I believe the answer is:
<span>to reveal past contributions of civilizations
to connect the past to the present
to recognize patterns
By knowing all the things above, future society could learn from the past society and started to make efforts to prevent the bad decision that made in the past from reoccurring. This would help the society to continue developing without facing unnecessary setbacks.</span>
It could be argued that one of the main ways in which European culture flourished in the Middle Ages was that Monks took "center stage" when it came to studying things like mathematics and religion, and paved the way for many skilled artisans who would later emerge in the Renaissance.
The answer is D.Millions of Soviet peasants starved to death when collective agriculture. Stalin failed when using his 5-Year Plan as there were communes in which peasants produced crops and the government took them but then it got to the point where the government took too much and people starved to death.