Identification Topics

What is common to most identifications is the need to handle the basic "reportorial" questions: Who? What? When? Where? (Answers to these questions are usually presented in the first paragraph)  Why (Historically) Significant?

Who is the person? What is the event? the place?

What did the person do?  What happened?

When did the person do it? When did the event occur? Context?

Where did the person do it?

Why is it significant? What were the consequences? What does it matter for our own times?

In trying to identify the significance of a person, place, or thing, step back and look at the "big picture": what distinguishes the item from others of its class? why is it important enough to appear on a test?