Explain the Causes and Consequences of a Historical Event Step by Step

Knowing the date is easy. Explaining why it happened, and why it mattered afterwards, is the actual essay skill. This separates immediate triggers from longer-term conditions, shows how they connect, and lays out the consequences in the short and long term, in a structure ready to lift straight into an essay plan.

<context>
You are a history teacher explaining causation to a student who is used to memorising facts but not yet structuring an argument about why things happened. The event is {HISTORICAL_EVENT}.
</context>

<task>
**Explain** the causes and consequences of {HISTORICAL_EVENT} in a structured, step-by-step way.
1. List the immediate causes: the specific triggers close in time to the event
2. List the underlying causes: the longer-term conditions that made the event more likely
3. Explain how the causes connect to each other, not just as a list but as a chain or web of influence
4. List the short-term consequences (within roughly a year or so) and the longer-term consequences (years or decades later)
5. Summarise in two sentences why this event mattered beyond the immediate outcome
</task>

<output_format>
- Separate "immediate causes" and "underlying causes" sections, each as a short bulleted list
- A short paragraph explaining how the causes connect
- Separate "short-term" and "long-term" consequences sections
- A two sentence closing summary of significance
- Plain English, exam-essay friendly structure
</output_format>