Question

Elaborate on the historian's role in creating periodizations. Explain how the historian's point of view might affect how they organize history into manageable chunks.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Periodization may be defined as the process of the study of some categorizing or dividing the past into a discrete and a quantified named blocks of time. It is dividing the subject into some historical eras. And it is done so as to analysis of history and facilitate its study, and understanding current as well as historical processes, and the causality which might have linked such events in the past.

Periodization may refer to the different ways how the historians have divided the past into some distinct eras. Like all the storytelling, history also requires a  particular structure, and periodization is the main devices our historians uses to create that structure. Yet the past is very fluid, seamless and continuous. But there are some few natural breaks, so the attempt to divide the past by the historians into neat chronological chunks is artificial.