Cambridge IGCSE History gives students the opportunity to study world history from the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. It encourages learners to raise questions and to develop and deploy historical skills, knowledge and understanding in order to provide historical explanations. Learners explore history from a diversity of perspectives, including social, economic, cultural and political, and are given the opportunity learn how to use historical evidence to make logical arguments and also understand international relations and diplomacy of the past and appreciate that of the present.