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Primary vs. Secondary Sources (WORLD HISTORY)

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    LT: I can identify and differentiate between a primary source and a secondary source.
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  • A journal entry written by Christopher Columbus describing his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
    Primary Source
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  • A biography of Napoleon Bonaparte (who died in 1821) written by a historian in 2013.
    Secondary Source
  •  10
  • A textbook chapter written in 1996 about World War I. WWI happened from 1914 to 1919.
    Secondary Source
  •  10
  • A photograph of your grandfather on his first day of school.
    Primary Source
  •  10
  • Winston Churchill’s autobiography (written by himself) about his life.
    Primary Source
  •  10
  • A newspaper article about the start of World War II, written the day after it started.
    Primary Source
  •  10
  • The Code of Hammurabi -- a collection of rules carved onto stone and made in Ancient Babylon approximately between the years 1755–1750 BCE.
    Primary Source
  •  10
  • A two-handed pottery vase from Ancient Egypt made in about the years between 1550–1295 BCE
    Primary Source
  •  10
  • A steel sword from Europe with a Latin quote engraved, made in about the year 1400
    Primary Source
  •  10
  • An essay written by a middle schooler in 2023 comparing and contrasting how women were treated in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Mesopotamia.
    Secondary Source
  •  10
  • The instagram page @ancientgreekhistory which posts statues and art made in and during Ancient Greece
    Secondary Source
  •  10
  • A book called "The Neolithic Revolution" (written in 2019) about how humans discovered farming more than 10,000 years ago
    Secondary Source
  •  10
  • The Stone Frieze from the Temple of Ninhursag in Mesopotamia made around 2600 BCE
    Primary Source
  •  10
  • A selfie a friend took of himself in front of a Black Lives Matter protest during the summer of 2020.
    Primary Source
  •  10
  • Speeches between Montezuma (the Aztec Empire's last emperor) and Cortés (a soldier for the Spanish Empire) from 1528 -- the year the Aztec Empire was conquered by the Spanish Empire.
    Primary Source
  •  10
  • A documentary show on Netflix about Cleopatra, last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt
    Secondary Source
  •  10