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Why is it so difficult for historians to arrive at an interpretation of past events

that is universally accepted?

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Answer: Historians with different points of view may interpret the same sources in different ways.

Explanation: Just took the quiz.

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An interpretation of any event that is universally accepted goes directly against the diversity of the people and against the antagonisms that exist in any society.

A historical interpretation is achieved through the use of a scientific method, the mobilization of a theoretical framework, and the framing of the object of study. There are dozens of ways historical research can be made. This variety ends up preventing universal interpretations.

Also, in order to a universal interpretation to exist, the historical event studied should have been lived by the people of its time in the same way by everyone. For example, everybody should have had the same experience of the Industrial Revolution so that all the historians could agree on their interpretations of it, but that's not true since industrialists and workers certainly felt very differently about industrial growth in the 1700s. The diversity of interpretations follows from the diversity of experiences people have of the same historical facts.

Historians have different interpretations about the same events because: different people experience events differently, historical research is a very diversified practice, every society is composed of dozens of conflicts between different groups.

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