In 1890, Mary E. Lease led the Farmers' Alliances to D. revolt against high mortgage rates.
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>
The totalitarian states usually don't allow any opposition parties to exist. If some people try to form a party, they usually end up in prison, are banished from the nation, or even murdered.
The reason why the totalitarian rulers prefer a one party system is in order to have all the power in the country, without having opposition that will constantly go public about the terrors and injustices that are happening. If there are more parties, than the people will start to support them, especially cause rarely who likes to live under a totalitarian ruler, thus the totalitarian ruler will face a situation where he/she will lose its power.