Question

What difficulties do you think might arise when trying to understand ideas from the past, especially when those ideas are so different from our modern thinking? Do you think primary resources show a complete picture of the period they are from? Give an example or two to illustrate your answe

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One example of a difficulty is why they had wars. Primary recourses would and DO show the reason of why they had those arguments and fights. Another thing is Politically, for example, when the Senators stabbed Julius Caesar, without a primary source, we wouldn't know who stabbed him to death! We could have been falsely looking at a different person.