What historical skill does the most to help people avoid or solve problems? A. Connecting the past and present

B. Historical imagination and judging the past

C. Path dependency and contingent thinking

D. History as common memory

A. Connecting the past and present

Explanation:

The historical skill that does the most to help people avoid or solve problems is "Connecting the past and present."

This is because our connecting our experiences of the past events would make us make better choices in the present.

Trying to apply what works for us in the past to solve the present problems, or avoiding our actions and inactions in the past events to understand the current events is a means of "connecting the past and present."

china unilaterally claims the entire south china sea as sovereign territory, then builds artificial islands to bolster its claim. it suddenly activates an air defense identification zone over the east china sea, and threatens to down any aircraft that does not report its position. it builds roads into indian territory, then redraws the maps to show that it is actually chinese territory. the people's republic under president xi jinping is quickly becoming the bully of asia.