IDENTIFICATIOM OF THE

HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE

TEXT
 "Let us study things that are
no more. it is necessary to
understand them, if only to avoid
them.
HISTORICAL
SIGNIFICANCE
What is historical significance?

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 jugdments about significance.
What is historical significance?

Significance has been called the forgotten concept

in history, no doubt beacuse it can be challenging
for both teacher and students.
"Teachears often tell students what is important instead of asking
them to consider what is significant. The key to understanding
significance is to understand the distinction between teaching significant

history and asking students to make judgments about significance ."

- Bradshaw, 2004
 Criteria on Assessing the Historical
Significance of Sources
There are a number of criteria that historians' use that can be
applied to establish the significance of events. these criteria are
interrelated with each other.
Relevance

Is it important/relevant to people living at the time?

Is something still relevant to our present lives event if it
had only a passing importance?

Resonance
Who were/have been affected by the event?
Why was it important to them?
How were people's live affected?
Remarkable

Was the event remarked on by people ar the time or since?

Remembered

Was the event/development important at some stage within

the collective memory of group or groups?
 Revealing
Does it reveal some other aspects pf the part?

Resulting Change
Does it have consequences for the future?

Durability
For how long have people's live been affected?
 Historical Text

Are original documents that contain an important historical information

about a person, place or event and can thus serve primary sources as
important ingredients of the historical methodology.

Significant historical documents can be deeds, laws, accounts of battles , or

the exploits of the powerful.
 Historical Importance of the Text

Texts are one of the important components of the history because it gives
us an overview about the past according to the point of view of the person
who experienced and wrote it, as it serves as one of the primary sources.

Useful for understanding enviromental change might have originally been

collected for very different reasons often it response.
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