Think about all of the stories that must have happened, a lot of simple things. It might be a founding of a village, a killing of an animal, a very simple courtship, a tenderness between a mother and their child. Think about the big things, the wars, the battles, the natural disasters. It's hard for us to imagine how much has occurred even in the last 100 or 200 or 1,000 years, much less 200,000 years. But we seek to understand regardless. That is what history is all about. As we'll see, history is in general trying to understand the stories of our past.