What is history? The vicissitudes of a piece of land can be a history, the rise and fall of a nation can be a history, a family of vicissitudes of life can be a history and the ups and downs of a person can be a history. History can be very long, the journey of life is how long it is how long, human age how old it is very old; history can be very great, the world is so vast it has how vast the universe has how vast it is so vast. Everything in the past is history.