i. Annales School, was a new school of historiography which arose in France at the onset of twentieth century.
ii. It was started by French historians.
iii. It gave a new direction to history writing.
iv. According to this school, history was not only about the political events, kings, great leaders, politics, diplomacy and wars but it also included the climate, local people, agriculture, trade, technology, means of communication, social divisions and their collective psychology, etc. in the historical times.