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the technical term in "contingent" :

https://acoup.blog/2021/10/15/fireside-friday-october-15-202...

"(The fancy way of putting the influence of all of those factors, both the big structural ones and the little, subject-to-chance ones, is to say ‘history is contingent’ – that is, the outcomes are not inevitable but are subject to many forces large and small, many of which the lack of evidence render historically invisible.)"