1. Historical Significance Flashcards
TEST
What is Significance?
The quality of being worthy of attention, importance, consequence.
What is the criteria for Historical Significance?
- Prominence
- Consequences
- Subsequent Profile
What is Prominence?
a) Immediate Recognition: Was it noticed at the time as having importance?
b) Duration: How long did it exist or operate?
What are Consequences?
The most common consideration is the impact of the event/ person/ trend on subsequent events (I.e., events that followed).
What are the characteristics of consequences?
a) Magnitude: How significant was the impact? (e.g., did it result in dramatic or minor changes…)
b) Scope: How widespread was the impact?
(e.g., were many people or geographical areas affected? Did it reach across various aspects of life?)
c) Lasting Nature: How lasting were the effects?
(e.g., were the effects short or long lived? Did the event significantly change the direction of following events?)
What is subsequent Profile?
Less widely recognized as a factor in determining significance is the importance the event/ person/ trend has played in the following popular and professional history.
What are the characteristics of a subsequent Profile?
a) Remembered?: has it been memorialized in popular culture or professional history? (e.g., has it taken on important status with a particular group or society as a whole?)
b) Revealing?: Does it help us understand history? (e.g., is it symbolic in some way of a period of history?)
Events, people, or developments have historical significance if they…
result in change.
Events, people, or developments have historical significance if they…
are revealing. That is, they shed light on enduring or emerging issues in history or contemporary life.
Events, people, or developments have historical significance if they… Historical significance is…
are shown to occupy a meaningful place in a narrative/ constructed.
Historical significance varies over
time from group to group.
