Question

Which can help historians decide if a source is reliable?
a.determining the author’s point of view on the subject
b.determining the amount of information in a book
c.determining how many people have heard of the source
d.determining how many people agree with the source

Answer 1

What do you think?

Answer 2

c

Answer 3

Um okay let me see....Historians rely principally on original documents, not copies or someone else's take on them. Whatever the subject of the source referred to someone somewhere will be researching it and however trivial the information contained, if it is original and even contemporary with the event, it will have a use to an historian.