The term historians use when they discuss the relationship between two events in which one is the direct result of another is causation.
Historians may employ the concept of causation in a wide range of ways, each of which is linked with different historiographical claims and different kinds of argumentation.
Through this application, it will be clear that historical narratives are causal, and that micro-history can be seen as a response to a very specific (causal) problem of Braudelian macro-history.
They started emerging around 3500 BC. The first major one was located in Mesopotamia, which is modern day Iraq. There was also ancient Egypt and China.
