History never repeat itself like in a circle, but repeat itself like on an helicoidal cycle.. The same and not the same ....
The "Great Year cycle" in traditional astronomy, is a perfect illustration of that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Year
Thinking that events in the universe and on Earth were completely unrelated and did never affect one another is now scientifically ridiculous...
Guess what happened when mankind detonated thermonuclear weapon in the sky ?
Guess what happen to our sun crossing different parts of the galaxy and "coughing" toward Earth ?
There exist proven scientific facts, but also science give us way more than numerous small proven facts, science give to each ERA his own abilty to imagine new rational and possible perspectives even if these perspective cannot be strictly proven to exist... Darwin never strictly proved that man descend from the ape, he gives us a rational relation and new perspective by pointing to ape and man in an environmental context.......
Basic human needs dont change but they express themselves in new ways through all evolution and through all history....These transformation of their expression is history...
When Cesar decided coming back from his Gallic wars to cross the Rubicon river WITH HIS ARMY it was a SYMBOLIC gesture of rebellion against the Rome republic, which expressed a basic need for total freedom but in a new context...
Semiotic teach us that symbols are real like a tree is real for consciousness...Rubicon is not just a mass of flowing water....
Well, some people do say that history has a way of repeating itself. Perhaps not surprising given that human needs and desires remain the same as they always did.