story tellking is important in history because it helps pass down stories (could be true or fake) to many people so they will know what happen. story telling make modern people understand more about the past, because without story telling, no one will know what happen. in american cultures they tells stories of what happened in history so mistakes dont get made again and it taught this generatoion on backgrounds of history. another example is in asian culures they might tell stories of the past which might sound instersting and many people nowdays can learn from it