Title Discuss the roles of language and reason in history Most of the knowledge we possess today is the result of learning and discoveries that have already occurred in our past. And we still continue to learn every day. The past - our History - covers the entirety of time. But the significance of History is such that events that occurred before have brought us to the present day and given us a better understanding of where we are in the world today from where we were when the first group of Homo Erectus spread from a village in Africa (Chandra 5). What we know today about our past has been handed down to us through some testimonies; both in spoken and written form. This is where the question arises: to what extent can we rely on the evidence we have that tells us our story. And even if we go beyond this evidence, how is it possible that the two ways of knowing: language and reason have shaped our history? History itself is a vast area of ​​knowledge. I believe it covers the other areas of knowledge, such as mathematics, science, ethics and the arts as they all have a past in the making. Therefore in this essay I will discuss the roles that language and reason play in the history we know today and how other ways of knowing, such as sensory perception and emotion, can influence language and reason which led to the formation of this story. Language, in the case of human beings, is a tool of communication and verbal expression. It can be said that language has formed a large part of our History because we have been told what happened and the "telling" happens through language. As Wendy Doniger states on the history of the Hindus, the most important religion of my country: “The word for 'history' in Sanskrit, itihasa, co...... in the center of the paper ......st, a question 'What would it have been like if things hadn't gone the way they did' comes to mind." Through this essay, I found a deeper meaning to this question and had the opportunity to explore its vastness. Just like the vastness that History encompasses.Works Cited1. Chandra, Nayan. Tied together. Noida: Penguin Viking, 2007. Print.2. Doniger, Wendy. The Hindus. An alternative history. Noida: Penguin Viking, 2009 Print.3. Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's world. Great Britain: Orion, 1991. Print4. Dombrowski, Eileen, Lena Rotenberg and Mimi Beck. Theory of knowledge. Classmate. Great Britain: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print. Internet sources1. Wind, Arnoldo Carlos. Aztec myths and cosmology. http://eaglefeather.org/series/Native%20American%20Series/Excerpt%20Aztec%20Myths%20and%20Cosmology.pdf Last visited: March