Diary and artifact.
Primary Sources come from the original time or event. A diary represents a first-hand account of something by the original person. An artifact does virtually the same thing, being from that time period. All the other choices are incorrect because they are often told in a way that changes the original story or event.
It provided free and safe travel across the Silk Road, it isolated Russia, and helped spread the bubonic plague
<span>the nationalists at the beginning took a back seat to fighintn the japs, then took the brute force task of fighting the japs head on because they had better weapons than the communists</span>
The correct answer here is influence.
Explanation:
To explore the influence, or effect of mythical literature on contemporary literature, a reader should identify key characters, settings, and plots.
That is to say, to explore the power or effect of mythical literature on contemporary literature it is important for the reader to try to identify key characters (main characters), settings and plots (what the story is about).
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