points made Understands that there are successes and failures but portrays this in a way that suggests that the student is unaware that different historians think different things e.g. phrase all opinions as THEIR opinions which seem to change throughout. Pupil puts a few names of historians or quotes without reason or expresses that different historians have different views but does not go on to explain what they are Any synoptic links will be
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he underlying causes of World War I‚ which began in the The Balkans in late July 1914‚ are several. Among these causes were political‚ territorial and economic conflicts among the great European powers in the four decades leading up to the war. Additional causes were militarism‚ a complex web of alliances‚ imperialism‚ and nationalism. The immediate origins of the war‚ however‚ lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the July Crisis of 1914 caused by the assassination of Archduke
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over by the devil and portrays the actions of the creature. This mainly happened to women. Historians are still trying to figure out why people would accuse others of witchcraft. Some think it was because of the paranoia from the Native American raids. Hallucinogens were also another suggestion. Historians were left with some clues of what caused the Salem Witch Trial hysteria. One reason that historians were left with was that people (mainly women) liked to lie. In a passage that Charles Upham
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Put forth by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in his paper‚ “The Significance of the Frontier in American History‚” his thesis asserted that the existence of a frontier and its settlement had shaped American character; given rise to individualism‚ independence‚ and self-confidence; and fostered the American spirit of invention and adaptation. Later historians‚ especially a group of “New Western Historians‚” modified the thesis by stating the environmental and other consequences of frontier settlement
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Demonstrated through the efforts to preserve cultural landscapes‚ the public historian must understand the importance and attachments that the public memory has to the places that they inhabit (Bluestone‚ 15). With this idea of the public’s memory and attachments to certain places‚ the historian can then understand what qualifies as successful landscape construction and preservation. Once the historian understands this‚ they will then comprehend the relationship between these three ideas
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Agrippina the Younger had four main factors that highly influenced her power before her marriage to Claudius. She was born into the Julio-Claudian bloodline making her an Imperial woman of a noble dynasty‚ she was as a result of her family background reasonably wealthy and educated‚ she had the backing of the Roman Army as her father Germanicus was the commander of the 5th legion of the army in Germany and finally her two marriages which provided her with wealth and a son to be heir of the throne
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“The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” To what extent do you agree? Where I grew up in the United States Spanish was a language that was rarely spoken‚ except for some elementary school classes where we learned colors and months‚ while at home it was what I used to speak to my family. My perspective of the language was influenced by my family as they spoke Spanish‚ so I found my self pursuing more knowledge about it. On the other hand my friends did not use Spanish
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the war. Many historians have different opinions and views why the United States dropped the bomb. I agree with historians Alperovitz and Frank‚ unlike most they’re anti-atomic bomb on Japan. I’m against the use of atomic weapons altogether and especially in Truman’s situation the atomic bomb was a bad decision. The use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima was unjust and overkill. The bomb killed thousands of civilians in Hiroshima to compel the Japanese to surrender‚ but as historian Berstein stated
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Cholas‚ Pandyas‚ Calukyas and Sangams but all these were in south. But still in Indian universities‚ Ancient and Medieval is understood with Hindu and Muslim respectively. To answer the question of economy and society under Medieval India‚ different historians and scholars gave there different point of views. Marxist scholars introduced the theory of Indian feudalism based on the principle of mode of production and social formation. They took land grants to represent alienation of the state. They also
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Effects on Historical Writings The struggle to find truth in telling the stories of history has been a source of constant debate amongst historians and intellectuals. With the emergence of religious rejection during the seventeenth and eighteenth century Enlightenment‚ the influence and undoubted supremacy of the heroic model of science provided historians with new ways for obtaining truth—absolute truths—through the dispassionate eyes of a “heroic” observer. Although this remains unchallenged
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