How can individuals affect history?

they cover up the real truth about historys disturbing past. Answer: All history is affected by individuals and to a much lesser degree by collectives of individuals. From Socrates to Plato to Aristotle, Alexander to Julius Caesar to Jesus of Nazereth, from Nero to Napoleon, Richard the Lionheart to Henry the VIII, Peter the Great to Vladimir Lenin, William Shakespeare to Anton Checkov, and Hadrian to Hitler. From Martin Luther to Martin Luther King, Queen Elizabeth I to Hillary Clinton, Queen Isabella to Rosa Parks it has always been the efforts of individuals that affect history.