HIST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Common Era, An Eyewitness Account, Greco-Persian Wars
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Foundational matters: how to read a primary source. Difference between primary sources and secondary sources. Strategies for reading and analyzing a primary source. History: we have multiple calendars that have been used throughout history, how time reckoned also reflects society"s ideas and what it deems important, before the common era (bce) and common era (ce) c. i. 2016 bce -> 500 bce -> 0 -> 500 ce -> 2016 ce. Bc and ad are also common terms c. i. 1. c. i. 1. a. c. i. 1. b. Letters/journals/diaries, newspaper articles, autobiographies, religious texts/hieroglyphics, photography, artwork (photography, architecture, music, paintings, sketches, etc. ), video/audio recording, government papers, myths/legends/ stories/tales, social media, genealogical records, material culture, maps, meeting minutes, speeches, testimonials, books, economic documents, oral history a. iii. a. iv. It is important to be cautious when examining certain primary sources. Religious texts and newspaper articles may be heavily edited and may not always count as the truest primary sources.
