Sympathy vs. Empathy

     I learned that sympathy and empathy differ very much from each other. Sympathy is feeling sorry or pity of someone's misfortune and empathy is to be able to understand how someone feels or that you have been in their situation before. An example of empathy is slavery, even know we have not been in their situation of being a slave, we can imagine and use your mind to put yourself in their shoes. I can also sympathize because I feel bad for slaves and what they had to go through. Empathy plays a big party in studying history, because it helps you understand better of what decisions people made and what people had to go through. Therefore, empathy and sympathy are two keys aspects in studying history.