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☆☆☆☆☆a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
whether the cost of mining will be less than the value of the mineral
A secondary source summaries large amounts of evidence.
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Primary sources may be incomplete or contradict other sources.
The setting of an event can provide insight into why it happened.
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fact
included more than one territory
A historian makes a speech arguing that Great Britain had history’s great empire.
Based on this information, he argues that the French Revolution produced far more negative outcomes than positive ones.
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is created to convince others to accept the author's point of view.
The U.S. the government is not doing enough to protect the worlds environment.
by providing that your thesis is supported with reliable evidence
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Conclusion
a sound generalization considers more factors than an oversimplification
If the question is:
A historian is writing a book about the fall of the Soviet Union. He claims that the country collapsed because it spent too much of its money on its military rather than providing domestic services to its people. What is the best way to determine whether the historian’s interpretation is valid?
Then the answer would be:
Corroborate the interpretation with other secondary sources.
