collect the different sources of history please on more than hundred words
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UNRAVELLING THE SOURCES
WE ONLY GET A FRAGMENTARY, DISTORTED VIEW; IT IS LIKE TRYING TO COMPLETE A PUZZLE WITH A LOT OF ODDLY SHAPED & MISSING PIECES.
Sources are our way of peering into the past, but the various kinds all present their own benefits and difficulties. The first distinction to make is between primary and secondary sources. A primary source is first-hand material that stems (roughly) from the time period that one wants to examine, whereas a secondary source is an additional step removed from that period – a 'second-hand' work that is the result of reconstructing and interpreting the past using the primary material, such as textbooks, articles, and, of course, websites such as this one.
PRIMARY SOURCES
However cool actual sources from times gone by may be, we cannot simply assume that everything they tell us (or everything we think they tell us) is true, or that we are automatically able to interpret their contents and context correctly. They were made by people, from within their own contexts. Keeping a critical eye and asking questions is thus the way to go, and it is a good idea to cross-examine different sources on the same topic to see whether any kind of consensus rolls out.