Star formation history of the SMC derived from star clusters. The figure illustrates the SFRs corresponding to our best-fit model (green curve in Fig. 4). The prominent peaks show enhancement in SFR followed by the merger (3.5 − 6 Gyr) and then due to the LMC-SMC interactions (< 3 Gyr). A Gaussian smoothing with a sigma value of 1.8 Gyr was applied to the model to approximate the broadening of the observed peaks and provide a reasonable visual match.