How to remember 'The Fall of the Roman Republic' series of events?

[Angela Karanikolas]

Hi Guys,
I am currently learning 'The Fall of the Roman Republic'. As many of you know, it is content heavy and there are a series of events that I just cant get the hang of.
If anyone has any ideas or any strategies that they put in place to help them retain any information/remember the series of events (or at this rate absolutely anything to do with the subject) it would be amazing!!

I do know the subject matter and the basic details but the series of events completely muddles me up.

Any help will be brilliant,
Thank you.

[sudodds]

Hi Guys,
I am currently learning 'The Fall of the Roman Republic'. As many of you know, it is content heavy and there are a series of events that I just cant get the hang of.
If anyone has any ideas or any strategies that they put in place to help them retain any information/remember the series of events (or at this rate absolutely anything to do with the subject) it would be amazing!!

I do know the subject matter and the basic details but the series of events completely muddles me up.

Any help will be brilliant,
Thank you.

Heya!
So I studied the Julio-Claudians and not the Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic, however I defs can offer you some pointers! When you say remembering a series of events, do you mean remembering what order they are in, or the events themselves? If you mean the order, timelines work quite well! However, I wouldn't be too worried about not knowing the order - is it preferable? Yes - because you can then use it as good detail, however you don't ever want to be writing a response as a chronology, because then you risk slipping into narrative. If you mean the events themselves, I highly recommend tables! Writing tables is a form of active note taking, where you are forced to assert significance onto events and analyse, rather than just list facts. So you have each event, and you suggest how they link to the themes and issues in your case study! Also, practice essays are never a waste of time! I believe I learnt the most in modern and ancient while doing practice papers (and then in the meetings with my teachers when they looked over them). If you make up a question for each event, and force yourself to write a paragraph for each one that'll be an excellent way to study (plus you then have summaries that can be studied from later!)

Hope this helps,

Susie

[Angela Karanikolas]

Heya!
So I studied the Julio-Claudians and not the Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic, however I defs can offer you some pointers! When you say remembering a series of events, do you mean remembering what order they are in, or the events themselves? If you mean the order, timelines work quite well! However, I wouldn't be too worried about not knowing the order - is it preferable? Yes - because you can then use it as good detail, however you don't ever want to be writing a response as a chronology, because then you risk slipping into narrative. If you mean the events themselves, I highly recommend tables! Writing tables is a form of active note taking, where you are forced to assert significance onto events and analyse, rather than just list facts. So you have each event, and you suggest how they link to the themes and issues in your case study! Also, practice essays are never a waste of time! I believe I learnt the most in modern and ancient while doing practice papers (and then in the meetings with my teachers when they looked over them). If you make up a question for each event, and force yourself to write a paragraph for each one that'll be an excellent way to study (plus you then have summaries that can be studied from later!)

Hope this helps,

Susie

Susie thank you so much!! The idea to write a paragraph on each series of events never entered my mind, that's genius.
I am more concerned with the fact I cant remember the occurrences but can remember the chronological order. I was super concerned but your idea will be super helpful for me.
Thank you so much again.

[sudodds]

Susie thank you so much!! The idea to write a paragraph on each series of events never entered my mind, that's genius.
I am more concerned with the fact I cant remember the occurrences but can remember the chronological order. I was super concerned but your idea will be super helpful for me.
Thank you so much again.

No worries! So glad I could be of use Let us know if you need help with anything else in the future!

[Blazeee]

Hello
I find with History that doing a "Generate, Sort and Elaborate" or another form of mind-map really helps me!
Depends if you're a visual learner or not...but being able to see all the events written and visualise their position on the page and link to each other helps me during exams and essays...but yeah as I said I'm a visual learner and others prefer the method of writing paragraphs to help remember!
Mind-maps take a lot of time when they're complex and involve many concepts/events, however this time spent on creating ideas, determining their position on the page and significance to the topic and then creating links between ideas really embeds the content into your mind!
Good luck!

[sudodds]

Hello
I find with History that doing a "Generate, Sort and Elaborate" or another form of mind-map really helps me!
Depends if you're a visual learner or not...but being able to see all the events written and visualise their position on the page and link to each other helps me during exams and essays...but yeah as I said I'm a visual learner and others prefer the method of writing paragraphs to help remember!
Mind-maps take a lot of time when they're complex and involve many concepts/events, however this time spent on creating ideas, determining their position on the page and significance to the topic and then creating links between ideas really embeds the content into your mind!
Good luck!

Awesome suggestions Courtney! Thanks so much for contributing

[Angela Karanikolas]

Hello
I find with History that doing a "Generate, Sort and Elaborate" or another form of mind-map really helps me!
Depends if you're a visual learner or not...but being able to see all the events written and visualise their position on the page and link to each other helps me during exams and essays...but yeah as I said I'm a visual learner and others prefer the method of writing paragraphs to help remember!
Mind-maps take a lot of time when they're complex and involve many concepts/events, however this time spent on creating ideas, determining their position on the page and significance to the topic and then creating links between ideas really embeds the content into your mind!
Good luck!

Thank you so much Courtney,
I am a visual learner so this is super helpful!
I'll give this a try as well as the paragraphs and see which one works better.
Thank you very much for this idea.