Tuesday, July 14, 2009

History Chapter 2( Recap Questions)


Q1. What are the primary and secondary sources?

Ans: The primary sources are: written evidence, pictorial evidence, oral evidence, artefacts. The secondary sources are: history textbook, documentries, and other alternatives.


Q2. How do the historians make sure that their sources are reliable?

Ans: The historians make sure that the sources are reliable by 3cs test : credibility, consistency and corroboration test. They have to make sure that ask if the source is trustworthy and they also take two statements, comparing them if they have similar meanings. Lastly, is the corroboration test. They have to provide infomation like evidence from an artefacct to support it.


Q3. Why and when it is necessary for historians to revise their interpretions of past events?

Ans: The historians have to revise their interpretion of the past events when many new pieces of evidence is constantly being discovered. Such evidence can provide new ways of looking at the past.

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