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Answer the following
-What is the common factor that links together all materialist approaches?

-Do you see any differences between the Annales approach (Social History), and the class-based approach of Marxists (Historical Materialists) in how they interpret the historical past?

-All historical approaches are a response to earlier approaches, so how these materialist approaches did challenged the political history narrative used by the Empiricists?  Also, what trend from the Empiricists did they continue? (Think about dependence on factual material) 

-What strengths and/or weaknesses do you see in the use of the materialist approach?