Complete Braudel’s architecture.
Braudel divided historical time into three speeds. The ______ moves over centuries and holds climate, terrain, and mental habit. The conjoncture breathes across ______. And the event, which he called a crest of ______ on the tides of history, flickers past in days.
Word bank: longue durée · decades · foam · millennia · silver
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- The architecture has three layers running at different speeds.
- The fastest layer was demoted to surface disturbance.
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Braudel divided historical time into three speeds. The longue durée moves over centuries and holds climate, terrain, and mental habit. The conjoncture breathes across decades. And the event, which he called a crest of foam on the tides of history, flickers past in days.
Centuries, decades, days, and the metaphor that demoted the entire previous discipline to surface disturbance.
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