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How does chronological thinking help a historian when studying history

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It helps them know when something happened and if one event lead to the cause of another
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It helps them with historical reasoning.

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Chronological thinking provides a mental graph for historical reasoning and thinking. The historian, although knowledgeable already, gets a better option of distinguishing past, present or future events.

He can identify the temporal structure of a particular historical event and place it correctly on a time line, he can establish temporal order of events and create time lines for historical patterns.

Chronological thinking helps with establishing models for historical successions, historical continuity and historical change.

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