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Unit 1: An Introduction to World History Lesson 4

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corroborate evidence
to confirm or give facts or information that
support to a can be used to test
statement, theory, whether a belief or
or finding proposition is true or valid

Example: Historians corroborate their Example: Historians must have evidence to

sources by looking for internal and external support their accounts.
consistencies.
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primary source secondary source
first-hand account of an account of an event
the event that was that was created later
created at about the by people who did not
time the event experience first-hand the event you are
occurred researching
Example: Diaries, letters, reports, Example: Encyclopedia articles, books written
photographs, and birth certificates are a few by historians, and textbooks are three types of
types of primary sources. secondary sources.
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fact opinion

something that is true what someone thinks

about a subject and about a subject
can be tested
Example: The opinion article in the
Example: It is a fact newspaper argued that Michigan should raise
that Michigan requires kids to go to school the minimum drop-out age from 16 to 18.
until they are at least 16.
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internal external consistency
consistency when factual details are
when the facts presented similarly
presented within a among multiple
single source do not clash with each documents or sources
other Example: There was external consistency
Example: There was internal consistency in among the documents because one witness
the document because it first stated that the report stated that the blue truck ran the red
car accident happened at 10 AM and then light while another witness report stated that
later stated that it happened between the light had been red for a while when the
breakfast and lunch. blue truck entered the intersection.
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