History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Inter Caetera, Mons Meg, Military Revolution
21 Jul 2016
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Secondary sources are an interpretation of a primary source; person wasn"t actually there. Secondary sources can always be wrong; must accept them with a grain of salt. Give you a rounder picture of the past usually take information from a few primary sources and put them together. Allow you to focus on particular issues. This happened because not just a this happened then this then this ) As the questions we ask change, so do the histories that we write. Need to not interpret history backwards need to look at before things happened and that mind-frame. Feitoria (a factory) at arguim factory as a center for trading. Learned that the indian ocean is not landlocked. Didn"t burn to a cinder (they didn"t burn from heat as they got further south) The pause nothing happened for 10 years because this was the most exciting thing in.
