History · Grades 7–10
Continuity, change and multiple causes · Revision card
Change is judged against an earlier situation and a chosen feature.
Understand the idea
Use a comparison point
Change is judged against an earlier situation and a chosen feature.
Look for continuity
Not every part of society changes at the same rate.
Distinguish cause and sequence
An earlier event is not automatically the cause of a later one.
Worked examples
Which question investigates continuity?
Continuity concerns what persists.
What remained similar across the two periods?
A new bridge opens and market visits increase. Why is timing alone insufficient to prove the bridge caused all the increase?
Credit alternative factors and a limited causal claim.
Other changes, such as population, prices or transport services, may also influence visits.
Explain without looking
- Why can the same change be described as rapid on one timescale and slow on another?
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