How do I ise historical skills to solve problems or answer questions about events in american lives?

Historical skills help us build a historical overview of American socio-political and economic aspects which improves our present and the future.

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By using the historical skills people tend to determine the change by comparing positions and historical figures in the past with the presence of American society and helps society to learn from its past to improve its future.     For example, when we study the historical context of American revolution we understand the democratic ideals that have led the revolution possible and integrated thirteen colonies together and it fosters unity among the Americans in the modern era.

the crusades are one of the most significant events in the history of europe and the middle east.   they were a series of religious wars carried out by christian crusaders from europe during the timeframe of the middle ages.   beginning in 1095 ce, the crusades saw european knights and noblemen travel to the middle east in an attempt to capture the holy land away from muslim people that had controlled the region for the previous centuries.   the term crusade means ‘cross’.   therefore, the europeans that became crusaders viewed themselves as ‘taking up the cross’.   in fact, many of the crusaders wore crosses on their clothing and armor as they made their pilgrimage to the holy land.

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