Question

Write short note on

Annales School

Answer 1

1. Annales School was a new school of historiography that arose in France at the onset of the twentieth century.
2. It was started by French historians.
3. It gave a new direction to history writing. 
4. According to this school, history was not only about the political events, kings, great leaders, politics, diplomacy, and wars but it also included the climate, local people, agriculture, trade, technology, means of communication, social divisions, and their collective psychology, etc. in the historical times.