The concept of historical time and space refers to the concepts of historical time series and historical geography. Everything in history happened in a specific historical time and geographical conditions. Only by placing historical events in the temporal and spatial framework of historical process can their significance be demonstrated. The knowledge of history discipline is based on historical time and space, and the understanding of history must start from the perspective of the concept of time and space.

To cultivate and develop students' view of historical time and space is to enable students to grasp the specific time and geographical environment in which historical events occur and develop, to make students' historical thinking operate under the framework of time and space, to construct the relationship among historical events, historical figures and historical phenomena according to historical time sequence and geographical factors, and to understand historical changes, continuity and development.