History

• single reason 
• multiple reason
• linked causes 
• long term 
• short term 
• different type of causes - political,economic, social, cultural
• Indentify most important cause and why
• use own knowledge 

• an explanation of the meaning of another person's actions or behaviour, or of events , that happened in the past
• the nature of the evidence
• how evidence is selected 
• how evidence is interepreted
• how much the historian has used his/her imagination 
• the background and assumptions made by the historian
• the purposes of the historian
• the amount of emphasisplaced by the historian upon different aspects of teh period or issue
• the intended audience of the historian

Analyse usefulness 

• what does the source tell me?
• limitations
• use own knowledge
• 5 w's

Evalute reliability

• who produced it?
• what do we know about theperson? 
• bias? 
• how do they know about the event/person? 
• why did they produce it? 
• propoganda? 
• does the source fit with own knowledge?
• does it agree or disagree with other sources?