Why do historians analyze historical events and cause-and-effect relationships?

Recognizing patterns of cause and effect is an important analytical skill that allows historians to explain why things happened the way they did in the past. It's also a strategy that can make it possible to predict what may happen in the future.

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They think it important to Identify the cause and effect relationships within a story helps students focus on two important elements of comprehension: what happens in the story and why it happened. ... Be sure that students understand that a cause is an action or event the makes something else (the effect) happen