I UNDERSTAND HOW OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST IS CONSTRUCTED THROUGH ANALYSIS OF PRIMARY SOURCES OF MANY KINDS

As a class, we discussed the definition of a primary source as something created during the time of the event. The examples we used in our projects were letters, diary entries, speeches, posters, propaganda, relics or artifacts, government reports, official documents, news accounts, and poems or songs. The primary sources give us an inside look of what really happened during the events, such as peoples emotions and actions. Having primary sources are important to history because without them we would just have to guess what really happened or what people were feeling. With them people can now have a more accurate inference of what happened. In class, we made different kinds of primary sources to understand the significance of them.

ARTWORK

This is artwork of the different world leaders are stabbing a picture of China and the Chinese ruler is trying to stop the madness. It shows us no one was really liking the way China was going about things. Knowledgerush is a good source because it has good and accurate background information of the New Imperialism. I know it is accurate because it also has it in our world history book:)

ADVERTISEMENT

This is advertisement from the period of the New Imperialism. This shows the more cultured everyone was from the New Imperialism and the different kind of events. This source is credible because it is all about vintage ads and it has many ads from the period of the New Imperialism.

PHOTO

This is a picture of the first day, first event of the first Olympic Games in 1896. This took place in the New Imperialism. This shows us that people were trying to work for peace during the New Imperialism. This photo is on a website that I believe is very creible. It has many old photos and explains them well and they are cited.

ARTIFACT

This is an artifact from the New Imperialism. It is called the Gatling Gun. It had high volume of fire, but someone had to reload it every time, so it was not the first true machine gun. This tells us through the New Imperialism weapons started to advance. The source I used tells you the history of the machine gun and the Gatling Gun.