But such a tactic is hardly fair to the large bulk of materials found in the OT that represent matters prior to the emergence of a geopolitical unit in the nation. Fallacy No. 4: History must not focus on individuals as shapers of the times, but on sociological factors that attempt to discover general laws and large-scale societal forces that influence historical change. Some sociological approaches to history attempt to maintain a balance between the individual, the particular, the unique, and the
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