Sources Flashcards
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What is a secondary source ?
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Secondary sources are written or made by someone who didn’t witness the event when it took place.
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What is a primary source?
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A primary source is something written or made at the time that the event took place .
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Give an example of a primary source?
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Anne frank’s diary,the Irish independent from the 1st of September 1994 or the remains of a motte and Bailey castle at Clonmacnoise.
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Give an example of a secondary source ?
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A history textbook, a reconstructed dwelling place from the Bronze Age or a full scale model of the space craft that landed on the moon in 1961.