Why do historians rely so much on evidence ? 

- Because artifacts are primary sources, they allow historians to make their own analyses and judgments of the information without having to consider someone else's interpretation and or opinions

 -The information that it contains is original and were not written separately from the events that they documented. 

 

 Historians look at evidence to help them understand the past. 

- Historians study the world because what happened to a society affects what will happen today and in the future. They look for causes and effects that help to explain why and how events happened, and they try to look tat the past through the eyes of the people who lived it. 

- Historians use different methods to analyze their evidence. This article shares about how historians investigate their evidence and the way that they interpret it. 

 

Primary and secondary sources. 

- Historians use existing evidence (primary and secondary sources) to answer questions that they have. They have to choose what information is the most important and trustworthy as evidence. 

 

By analyzing evidence, historians are able to come to deeper conclusions on significant events based off of the continuous information that they find.