Thinking about causation involves the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate the relationships among many historical events as both causes and effects. Historians often try to distinguish between immediate, proximate, and long term-causes and effects. Some events and conditions may have some correlation without proof of a direct causal relation while others are only coincidental or without a relationship
Response questions genuinely focus on gathering opinions from the readers on what they think about the work, without mentioning the author's or any other person stated inside the stories's view. However, this does not mean that the reader cannot agree to the author
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