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Source are insignificant in reconstruction of history? Discuss?​

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History is reconstructed by the use of “documents,” “artifacts,” and “chronicles” (which category includes official accounts of events, memoirs, and personal correspondence.) They use these remnants of a bygone time, by exercising both inductive and deductive reasoning, to support hypotheses and to validate theories. Examples: The kings and queens of medieval Europe had a member of their retinue called a “chronicler,” whose job was to record daily events surrounding the monarchy;

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