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7–10History 7–10 Syllabus

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Stage 5

Historical concepts

This section outlines the historical concepts relevant to each focus area, which are to be integrated with the content.

Continuity and change
  • Some aspects of a society, event or development are dynamic and change over time and others remain the same

  • Relationship between continuity and change in a historical context

Cause and effect
  • Ways in which different factors can lead to immediate and long-term changes

  • Events, decisions, and developments in the past that produce later actions, results or effects

Perspectives
  • Changing interpretations of historical events from different points of view

  • How points of view can be shaped by available sources of information

  • Thinking critically and identifying bias and omissions

Significance
  • Impact of a group, individual, idea, belief, practice or event on their time or later periods

  • Importance assigned to a historical site, artefact or source

Contestability
  • Historical accounts and interpretations that are debated and challenged

  • Different methodologies and evidence used by historians and archaeologists to gather and analyse information, leading to varied interpretations of the same events

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