SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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a historian
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the only witness to an event
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someone who lived at the time
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the most well-respected scholar of a given subject
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Detailed explanation-1: -Historians consider primary sources to be material written by the subject (if a person) or material that was written about a subject by someone who was alive during the time period.
Detailed explanation-2: -Primary Sources These sources are records of events or evidence as they are first described or actually happened without any interpretation or commentary. It is information that is shown for the first time or original materials on which other research is based.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some examples of primary sources are autobiographies and memoirs, letters and correspondence, original documents such as vital records, photographs and recordings, records of an organization, newspaper or magazine articles, journals and diaries, speeches, and artifacts.