Helpful Language for History Essays! Significance Causation Consequence Continuity Unimportant Less important More important Most important Catalysts Longer-term Consequence Continuity Trivial Minor Major Crucial Accelerated Nurtured Resulted in Persisted Irrelevant Allegedly Substantial Imperative Sparked Fostered Subsequently Maintained Pointless Superficial Fundamental Created Triggered Underpinned Consequently Sustained Negligible Indirect Direct Decisive Hindered Laid the foundations for As a result, Preserved Insignificant Cursory Notable Essential Exacerbated Was the root of This bred Stagnated Cosmetic Inadvertent Sizeable Pivotal Aggravated Birthed Aftermath Status quo Marginal Ostensibly Central Vital Facilitated Allowed Implications Continued Change Perspectives Positives & Negatives Categorizers Dramatic / major Slower / Minor Perspectives Positive Negative Type Scale Transformed Developed From one point of view... Beneficial Detrimental Social Long term Revolutionised Evolved From the perspective of... Advantageous Disadvantageous Economic Short term Converted Blossomed Viewpoint Effective Deleterious Religious Local Restructured Altered Outlook Valuable Adverse Military Regional Shifted Modified Standpoint Constructive Destructive Political National Reformed Fluctuated Stance Favorable Unfavorable Ideological Global (Re)shaped Adapted Position Profitable Harmful Cultural Building your argument Revealers Emphasisers Contradictors Comparisons Introducing Examples Referencing others (e.g. X historian…) Consolidated Moreover Nevertheless Similarly For example, Asserts Showed Furthermore Despite Likewise For instance, Contends Indicated Indisputably Conversely In a similar vein... An illustration of this is... Suggests Highlighted Definitely Notwithstanding In the same way.. Evidence of this is... Posits Demonstrated Clearly However Correspondingly This is evidenced by... Underscores Revealed Obviously Although Equivalent Namely Argues Reflected Demonstrably Nonetheless Comparable Such as Claims Based on the work of: Russell Tarr (Active History.co.uk) 'Cause and consequence', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/te-akomanga/historical-concepts/cause-consequence-analysis, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 27-Jul-2021
