2023 TRIAL HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION DO NOT REMOVE PAPER FROM EXAMINATION ROOM Centre Number ‘Student Number History Extension Afternoon Session Monday, 14 August 2023 General Reading time — 10 minutes Instructions * Working time — 2 hours * Write using black pen + Write your Centre Number and Student Number at the top of this page Total marks: Section | - 25 marks (pages 2-3) 50 * Attempt Question 1 * Allow about 1 hour for this section Section Il - 25 marks (page 4) * Attempt Question 2 * Allow about 1 hour for this section Dasaimer Those Ti High Scho! Confit Examinations have bee preued by CSSA. dso Cabolic Seals NSW Lite, vary ft hs ben mato ope hese Thal HigherScvolCeriinte Enanintons itaczrdance wih he NSW Educ Stands Ahriy(NESA)Soamen, Pins Seti HSC Exes na Stns Referenced Frework nl Prine fo Developing Mang GidlnesExumntios a Stands Rsfrnca Tvamework. 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Over the past decades, historians have broadened their scope from political, economic, or intellectual history to include the study of emotions, attitudes, tastes, or prejudices. (And in what I find a rather tiresome trend, historians have also been looking increasingly at themselves; how they “created” the past.) And in the house of history are those who think in centuries and those who focus on a single moment. Some historians prefer to deal with the great changes, sometimes over millennia, that have taken place in human society. They look at the shift from hunting to agriculture, for example, o the growth of cities; or they count such things as population growth and migrations or economic output. The great French historian Femand Braudel argued that the true object of historical research was to look beneath the surface of events and discover the longer-term patterns - what he called the longue durée*. He saw human history as a great slow-moving river, affected in its course more by zcography, the environment, or social and economic factors than by such transient or short-lived events - he called them “froth” - as polities or wars. ‘We cannot dismiss the short term so easily. Ideas and sudden shifts in politics, intellectual fashions, or in ideology or religion matter too. Think of the startling growth in the past two decades in fundamentalism in religions as different as Christianity, Hinduism, or Islam. Historians rightly look at key moments which signalled or set in motion great changes, such as the storming of the Bastille, which marked the French Revolution, or the assassination of the archduke in Sarajevo, which led to the outbreak of the First World War. And historians can take an apparently insignificant incident and use it to illuminate an age, as Natalie Zemon Davis did with sixteenth- century France in her telling of the return of Martin Guerre (who came back to claim his wife and property from an imposter) MARGARET MACMILLAN History's People ~ Personalities and the Past, 2015 * longue durée — a long period of time Question 1 continues on page 3 -2-Question 1 (continued) Source B The connection between history and biography would seem to be a close and natural one. Most biographies, after all, are accounts of the lives of dead men and women and so fall within the domain of the historian, that is, the study of the human past. Conversely, if history is in fact the study of past human experience, what could be more germane* than the accounts of the actual lives and actions of specific human beings? Moreover, in many times and places, such as medieval Europe, much of what was written about the past was built around accounts of the lives of prominent figures, be they rulers, clerics or saints, Biography was, then, the core or heart of historiography ... However, despite this close connection many distinguished historians have argued that biography is not properly part of the historian’s remit and should be consigned to the sphere of literature STEPHEN DAVIES Empiricism and History, 2003 * germane ~ relevant End of Question 1 Please turn over to page 4 Copyright Source A MacMillan, M. (2015). History's People ~ Personalities and the Past. Textpuiblishing.com.au and the ‘Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. {Accessed 17 Dec. 2022]. Used with permis Source B- Davies, 8. (2003). Empiricism and History. Palgrave Macmillan. Used with permission. Source C Quotation created by the 2023 CSSA HSC Examination History Extension Co-Convenors.Section Il 25 marks Attempt Question 2 Allow about 1 hour for this section Answer the question in a SEPARATE writing booklet. Extra writing booklets are available. Your answer will be assessed on how well you: * demonstrate knowledge and understanding of an appropriate case study * engage with the historiography of the area of debate selected for discussion © present a comprehensive, logical and sustained response Question 2 (25 marks) ‘To what extent have popular interpretations influenced historians’ debates? In your response, refer to Source C and at least ONE area of debate in your case study. Identify your case study at the beginning of your answer. Source C ‘Successful history is that which communicates to the broadest audience. 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