Things often become significant because they have been remembered in a particular way over time. In history, it is common for certain people or events to become more famous with each passing year.
Q. What makes a source contestable?
Contestability is the idea that two separate sources can draw different conclusions about a historical person, concept or event. Contestability most commonly occurs between two modern sources, typically academics, who have studied the surviving material in detail, but hold two different interpretations of the past.
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- Q. What makes a source contestable?
- Q. What does significance mean in history?
- Q. Why is learning history so important?
- Q. Why do changing perceptions about our society today affect history?
- Q. How does history affect identity?
- Q. How does the past influence the present?
- Q. How do you define history in your own understanding?
Q. What does significance mean in history?
Historical significance is the process used to evaluate what was significant about selected events, people, and developments in the past. Historians use different sets of criteria to help them make judgements about significance.
Q. Why is learning history so important?
Develop an Understanding of the World Through history, we can learn how past societies, systems, ideologies, governments, cultures and technologies were built, how they operated, and how they have changed. The rich history of the world helps us to paint a detailed picture of where we stand today.
Q. Why do changing perceptions about our society today affect history?
History is affected when changing perceptions about the society because they are recorded and written. People who writes this has included events that had occurred of which will be contributed to history as it has been recorded. When it has been recorded, this will influence people who have read them in the future.
Q. How does history affect identity?
History helps one to understand the immense complexity of our world and therefore enables one to cope with the problems and possibilities of the present and future. History provides us with a sense of identity. People need to develop a sense of their collective past. Events in the past have made us what we are today.
Q. How does the past influence the present?
When a current situation, incident or event in our present lives resonates with a past situation, incident or event, we instantly have flashbacks. Those specific stored memories, thoughts, emotions and feelings are energized, and they resonate forward into our present.
Q. How do you define history in your own understanding?
History is the study of the past – specifically the people, societies, events and problems of the past – as well as our attempts to understand them. It is a pursuit common to all human societies.
