Recape Question

Dear everybody,

I will generously share the knowledge that I have regarding history.Lets ask these questions to ourselves before answering them. The questions are:

1)What are primary and secondary sources?

2)How do historians make sure that their sources are reliable?

3)Why and when is it necessary for historians to revise their interpretations of the past?

Answers:
1)a) A primary source is a document or physical object which was written or created during the time under study. These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular event.
b) A secondary source interprets and analyzes primary sources. These sources are one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary sources may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them.

2) Historians go through the three 'C's which are Credibility, Consistency and Corroboration. I will explain it to you after I post this blog.

3) Historians also revise earlier explanations of the past, .... to organize them into a thoughtful interpretation of the past to answer the question. ... not on the events themselves—it is on how scholars have interpreted those events. .... Many students complain when their history papers are marked down because of ...

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Firdaus