Practice question · Multiple choice
Braudel ranks battles and treaties lowest and the near-motionless history of terrain and climate highest. Why is that a claim about causation rather than about importance?
Hints
- Ask what determines the range of options an actor has to choose from.
- Braudel does not deny that events happen.
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D. Because slow structures set the limits fast events move within
Why
The three tiers are a hierarchy of constraint. A treaty is real, but the range of treaties available was fixed by things moving too slowly to appear in that year’s archive.
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