That's it for this lesson!
Everything we've learned here is what you'd call a historical description, but we've focused specifically on describing historical events.
This kind of historical description:
- Locates historical events in time and place.
- Describes what happened at different time scales, ranging from decades to minutes.
- Explains the meaning and significance of these events in the rest of history or the world.
You can boil it all down to when, where, what, and so what—but as you've seen, there are lots of ways to write historical descriptions.
