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====== History ====== <code> evidence: physical (coins, buildings, paintings) written/oral: PRIMARY SOURCES | | | SECONDARY SOURCES <----- | (written by other historians) | | | | | | | | | | a story of the past ------------------------- </code> main problems of knowledge: * evidence is liable to __forgery__, * "a" story, because history is liable to __bias__: every historian must be writing from some perspective -- * e.g. even writing about the Roman Empire, a British historian in1900, during the colonial time, will write differently from a modern American historian; * so historians have a responsibility * to avoid presenting a one-sided view, * to make it clear where they stand.
