Write a paragraph explaining how historians explore the past to understand events that happened long ago. Be sure to discuss at
least four of these items in your explanation: artifacts, primary sources, secondary sources, narratives, historical maps, visual/mathematical quantitative data, radiocarbon dating, and DNA analysis.
Historians explore the past to understand events that happened long ago so they can understand life and the future. Historians study artifacts to learn about culture and traditions within history, and how the cultures may have changed or stayed the same. They study primary sources and secondary sources to understand the timeline given, example is Lincolns assassination, There are secondary and primary sources for the event that people use now to understand the event that happened long ago. Another way historians find data if radiocarbon dating, where they determine the age of an artifact to understand the meaning and what happened.
Historians are changing their approach toward history because history is not just about dates and historical events. All the events are related to the culture of the society and there are many political and economic factors for an it. Studying past and to get the true answers about the past events one needs to look into these matters also. So they changed their approach and all these factors are taken into constitution.
In general, no, the revolution in agriculture was no necessary to the Industrial Revolution since the Industrial Revolution relied on things like machines and steel.
He obviously didnt show great leadership just because of the year he was born or because he lived on Mt Vernon. "Washington led his army to a decisive victory at York town" would be a great way he showed leadership during the Revolution.
