Multiple choice

Historians rely on primary sources because these sources

  1. are more detailed than secondary sources

  2. provide eyewitness accounts of events

  3. are approved by religious authorities

  4. establish rules for writing history
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Primary sources are original materials from the time period under study, providing direct, firsthand evidence. Secondary sources interpret or analyze these primary sources, but they are not eyewitness accounts themselves.

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