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Interpretations and significance, Year 7: more practice

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History · Interpretations and significance, Year 7: more practiceProfessor Harari

Answer in your head…When judging significance, historians ask how many people were affected and how deeply their lives changed. What question about time do they also ask?

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History · Interpretations and significance, Year 7: more practiceProfessor Harari

How long the effects lasted

HintThink about duration: for how much time did people feel it?

The whySignificance is judged by breadth (how many people), depth (how much their lives changed) and how long the effects lasted.

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History · Interpretations and significance, Year 7: more practiceProfessor Harari

Answer in your head…A famous battle was won in one afternoon, but little changed for ordinary people afterwards. Is it automatically highly significant?

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No, because fame is not the same as significance

HintCheck depth, number of people and length of effect.

The whyA battle can be famous without changing many lives for long. Another event that is less famous might change far more.

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Answer in your head…A royal wedding is widely remembered, but the spread of printing is judged more significant. Why?

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History · Interpretations and significance, Year 7: more practiceProfessor Harari

Printing changed far more lives, more deeply and for much longer

HintCompare the number of people affected, and for how long.

The whyPrinting spread ideas, news and learning across Europe for centuries, while a wedding is mostly a single day.

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Answer in your head…Is an event's significance fixed for ever, or can later historians change their minds about it?

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It can change, as later effects appear or people's questions change

HintThink about what hindsight reveals as the years pass.

The whySomething that seemed minor at the time may later be seen as a turning point, and historians' questions change with each generation.

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Answer in your head…The Normans changed who ruled England in 1066, but many villagers farmed much as before. Which word describes the farming: change or continuity?

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History · Interpretations and significance, Year 7: more practiceProfessor Harari

Continuity

HintAsk whether life stayed the same.

The whyGreat political changes did not always change everyday work. History includes both what changed and what stayed the same.

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Answer in your head…Why can the same period feel fast-changing to one group and unchanged to another?

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History · Interpretations and significance, Year 7: more practiceProfessor Harari

Events affect different groups, such as town and country, rich and poor, in different ways

HintThink of two people in the same period whose daily lives were unalike.

The whyA new law might transform a city overnight but make little difference in a remote village.

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Fill the gapAnswer in your head…Historians use the word ____ for things that stay the same over a period of time.

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continuity

HintThe opposite of change.

The whySpotting continuity alongside change gives a fuller picture of a period.

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History · Interpretations and significance, Year 7: more practiceProfessor Harari

Answer in your head…A pupil writes: 'The Romans should have used electricity for their baths.' What is wrong with this sentence?

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History · Interpretations and significance, Year 7: more practiceProfessor Harari

It judges the Romans by technology they did not have

HintCould anyone in ancient Rome know about electricity?

The whyJudging the past by what we know now is anachronistic. A better question is what the Romans actually used and why.

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Answer in your head…Why should historians ask 'what did people at the time believe?' before judging a decision?

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History · Interpretations and significance, Year 7: more practiceProfessor Harari

People acted on the ideas and knowledge available to them then, not ours

HintThink about what someone living in that era could understand.

The whyUnderstanding beliefs of the time helps explain decisions without simply approving or condemning them.

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Answer in your head…A textbook says Roman soldiers in Britain ate potatoes. Why is this an error?

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History · Interpretations and significance, Year 7: more practiceProfessor Harari

Potatoes reached Europe from the Americas long after Roman times

HintThink about which continent the vegetable was first grown in.

The whyPotatoes came to Europe in the 1500s after contact with the Americas, around a thousand years after the Romans left Britain.

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