History Concepts Flashcards
Historical Significance
What someone has deemed important and worth studying, Importance ties to the impact.
Determine the importance of something in the past. Determine the impact of something on a group of people and whether its effects are long lasting. Develop your understanding that something that is historically significant for one group may not be significant for another. Determine the relevance of something from the past and how it connects to a current issue. Determine what historical events people or developments reveal about enduring or emerging issues in history.
Cause and Consequence:
A+B=C– event a interacting (or on its own) with event be created c
Determine the factors that affected or led to something and its impact/effects. Develop an understanding of the complexity of causes and consequences, lear ning that something may be caused by more than one factor and may have many consequences, both intended and unintended. Consider that both historical actors (individuals and groups) and the social, political, economic and cultural conditions can cause events to happen.
Continuity and change
The examination of how things change and yet stay the same over time.
Determine what has stayed the same and what has changed over a period of time. Explore what has stayed the same and what has changed with reference to ways of life, political policies, economic practices, relationship with the environment, social values and beliefs, and so on. Make judgements about continuity and change by making comparisons between some point in the past and the present, or between two points in the past. Assess how an event may involve progress for some people/groups and decline for others.
Historical Perspective:
The understanding that societies views on things change over time and between societies.
Analyse past actions, events, developments, and issues withing the context of the time in which thy occurred. Try and understanding the social, cultural, political, economic and intellectual context, and the personal values and beliefs, that shaped people’s lives and actions in the past. Not imposing today’s values and ethical standards on the past. Learn that in any given historical period, people may have diverse perspectives on the same event, development, or issue.
