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what term do historians use to describe the study of the political ,social,cultural, and economic setting surrounding a historical event in order to understand it more thoroughly?

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the answer you are looking for is contextualization

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I think the term that best applies to it is historical materialism. It focuses on the dialectics of understanding history using contradictions in politics, economy, culture and social changes inside a society. These cause the development and changes to further improve and have another society that would cater the people's interest.
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