Multiple choice

Why are primary sources important to understanding human history?

  1. They provide historians' interpretations of past events.

  2. They are based on secondary sources.

  3. give description of events by a person who lived through it

  4. passed down orally from one generation to the next
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Primary sources are direct, firsthand accounts of events created by people who witnessed or experienced them. They provide invaluable, unvarnished evidence about the past, whereas secondary sources offer later interpretations and analyses.

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