Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Chapter 1-Lesson 2
Chapter 1-Lesson 2
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(Jnwritten sourcesare as essential as written sources. They are two types: the material
during excavations for roads, sewer lines, and big building structures. Known Name:
historical sites are purposely excavated with the hope of reconstructing and Course & Year: -
understanding their meaningful past. Moreover, archaeological finds such as coins or
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monies can provide historians with significant information relating to government
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transactions during which the currencies were in circulation' Similarly, historians
can get substantial information from drawings, etchings, paintings, films, and
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There are two leneral kinds of historical sources: direct or primary and indirect or
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1. primary are original, first-hand account of an event or period that are usually
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written or made during or close to the event or period. These sources are original
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and factual, not interpretive. Their key function is to provide facts. Examples of
primary sources are diaries, journals, letters, newspaper and magazine articles b. protoc(
(factual accounts), government records (census, marriage, military), photographs, 5. These histo
maps, postcards, posters, recorded or transcribed speeches, interviews with a. unwrit
participants or witnesses, interviews with people who lived during a certain time, b. reliabk
songs, plays, novels, stories, paintings, drawings, and sculptures' 6. Aproducto
2. Secondary sources,on the other hand, are materials made by people long after
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events being described had taken place to provide valuable interpretations of b. social t
historical events. A secondary source analyzes and interprets primary sources'
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It is an interpretation of second-hand account of a historical event. Examples of
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secondary sources are biographies, histories, literary criticism, books written
by a third party about a historical event, art and theater reviews, newspaper or b. electro
journal articles that interPret. 8. Whatisthel
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