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A country's history can be made up by many things, some of which include past conflict, whether or not the country was ever a colony, and the government ideology in place.
That would depend on whether that explorer,s history is to be recorded or inferred. Inferred = The first humans to leave Africa made history by beginning the human colonization of the planet. I believe one of the oldest recorded historical tale is that of Gilgamesh.
If you look back on the past, you can see what kind of mistakes mankind has made. We can see what all happened leading up to that point. If we familiarize ourselves with history, we can avoid making the same mistakes again. This is true for different types of history, whether it's your own history or the history of a nation.
Fernand Braudel, Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century (3 vols) remains probably the best place to start, whether it's to work forward or back.
Herodotus, a Greek author, known as the 'father of history' was born some time in the 5th century B.C. his book history, describing the wars between Greece and Persia is generally considered to be the first deliberate attempt to see the events of the time against a historical background. 'I am giving', he says,' the results of my inquiries (historiai) so that the memory of what men have done shall not perish from the world nor their achievements, whether of Greeks or of foreigners, go unsung. They form my theme, and the cause why they went to war'.