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History vocab 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bias | favouring of one or other (side in an argument etc) rather than remaining neutral |
| perspective | a way of regarding situations or facts and judging their relative importance |
| reliability | capable of being relied on; dependable |
| sources | one, such as a person or document, that supplies information |
| secondary source | any document that describes an event, person, place, or thing not created contemporaneously |
| historical interpretation | explanation, as of a historical site, provided by the use of original objects, visual display material, etc. |
| types of evidence | Four Types of Evidence are Anecdotal Evidence, Testimonial Evidence, Statistical Evidence, Analogical Evidence. |
| Anecdotal Evidence | Usually very weak 'positive' evidence |
| Testimonial Evidence | Moderately strong or supportive evidence |
| Statistical Evidence | Moderately strong or supportive evidence |
| Analogical Evidence | Fairly strong or supportive evidence |
| primary source | material from, or directly related to, the past |
| opinion | belief not founded on certainty or proof but on what seems probable |
| fact | an event or thing known to have happened or existed |
| source chart (origin, value, purpose, limitations) | a chart that has different sources and information on it |