Quick questions on How history has been constructed for HSC History Extension

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What is match the command word to the depth?

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"Identify/outline" wants a named method or form with one feature; "explain" wants a mechanism linking a method or form to a changed historical claim; "analyse/evaluate/to what extent" wants at least two methods or forms compared, with a calibrated judgement about how much each changed what history can say.

What is always carry a dated example?

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Replace "historians started using more evidence" with "the Annales school, from the 1920s, drew on price series and material culture" or "Valla's 1440 philological analysis exposed the Donation of Constantine".

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