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- Students have to build on their contextual understanding of world history taught at Key Stage 3 to master the specific knowledge of the medical advances. They also have to understand the reasons for change and how factors have also hindered progress. The students continue to develop their historical skills and practise exam questions.
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The aim of the chapter is to introduce the student to the academic study of history, by presenting three core concepts which are part of the traditions in the field, before moving on to discuss the World History approach and its distinctive features.
Each chapter features maps prominently and will help you frame world cultures in their geographic and historical context. You will engage with firsthand accounts of key people and events—including instances in which people’s recollections of the same events might differ.
The historian’s main job is to discover why history happened as it did. What caused the events that have shaped our shared human past? To answer this question, historians apply rigorous interpretative methodology rooted in the search for causation.
1.1 Developing a Global Perspective. 1.2 Primary Sources. 1.3 Causation and Interpretation in History. What is history? Is it simply a record of things people have done? Is it what writer Maya Angelou suggested—a way to meet the pain of the past and overcome it?
- Splitting History
- Dates and Calendars
- The Imperfect Historical Record
- Historical Bias
Periodization—the process of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified, named blocks of time in order to facilitate the study and analysis of history—is always arbitrary and rooted in particular regional perspectives, but serves to organize and systematize historical knowledge.
While various calendars were developed and used across millennia, cultures, and geographical regions, Western historical scholarship has unified the standards of determining dates based on the dominant Gregorian calendar.
While some primary sources are considered more reliable or trustworthy than others, hardly any historical evidence can be seen as fully objective since it is always a product of particular individuals, times, and dominant ideas.
Biases have been part of historical investigation since the ancient beginnings of the discipline. While more recent scholarly practices attempt to remove earlier biases from history, no piece of historical scholarship can be fully free of biases.
This introduction chapter summarizes the other chapters in the two parts of the book. It describes some of the main themes of each chapter and makes comparisons among them. As a sub-discipline of the modern history discipline, world history is surprisingly new.
To get a better sense of what proper world historical questions look like—and how world historians go about answering them—let’s think about scale, themes, and details. This helps us get a clearer picture of how we can ask—and answer—world historical questions.
