One of the things that makes history so endlessly fascinating is its temporality, which compounds the complexity already existing in the study of a society isolated from its context. History not only illuminates multiple objects of study across very large spaces, allowing for endless comparisons and contrasts, but the passage of time itself reveals another layer of complexity by eventually connecting those disparate objects together, in a relation of constant transformation. We're talking here about a larger and denser chunk of reality to be presented to the inquiring consciousness.
