Activity
In this lesson, you learned how to use the tools of a historian. You analyzed different types of sources to look for the author and the purpose. You also learned how to distinguish between a primary source and a secondary source.

Putting It All Together
Historians, like detectives, use primary sources and secondary sources to learn more about the past. To collect your reward, you need to write a letter to the sheriff to convince him that you have solved the crime of the stolen gardening tools.

Letter requirements:

Box of evidence from cold case interactive.
Review and consider each piece of evidence from your 411 file as you attempt to solve the crime. Your conclusions must be presented to the sheriff in a written statement.

Paragraph 1
Explain who you believe took the gardening tools.

Identify the most reliable piece of information you used to solve the mystery and justify your answer. You should include the following:
what the source told you about the crime
why you think this evidence is the most reliable
the type of source (Hint: Was it a newspaper, diary, photograph, etc.?)
the purpose of the source (Hint: Why was it created?)
whether this source is primary or secondary (Hint: Was it created at the time of the event or after the fact?)

Paragraph 2
Identify the least reliable piece of information you used to solve the mystery and justify your answer. You should include the following:
what the source told you about the crime
why you think this evidence is the least reliable
the type of source (Hint: Was it a newspaper, diary, photograph, etc.?)
the purpose of the source (Hint: Why was it created?)
whether this source is primary or secondary (Hint: Was it created at the time of the event or after the fact?)

Assignment
Please view the Grading Rubric before beginning the Assignment.

Complete the reading and any interactives for this lesson.
Review your 411 File for this lesson.
Complete and submit "01.06 The Historian’s Clues."
For complete directions on how to complete assignment, submit work, and attach files, please go to the Course Information Area.

This lesson also has a collaboration opportunity on page 4. Remember that you must complete one collaboration for each segment of the course. Please ask your instructor if you have any questions about this requirement.

imperialism is a type of government that seeks to increase its size, either by forcing (through war) or influencing (through politics) other countries to submit to their rule. the sun never sets on the roman empire, or so went the saying when rome controlled the majority of europe 2000 years ago.

7. which was not an important advance made by the maya:

-deviced and accurate map of the world.

8. what was justinian code:

-a single, consistent set of laws for the byzantine empire.

9. which describes what theodora achieved as justinian´s most trusted adviser:

-getting laws passed to give married women more rights and to protect divorced women.

10. what caused the christian church to divide into two branches- the eastern orthodox church and the catholic church:                                             -differences in language, liturgy, and views on religious icons.

11. what was a result of the work done by the monks cyril and methodius:       - orthodox christianity spread to slavic cultures.

12. which is true about byzantine culture:

-it was a blend of greco-roman and persian culture.

13. which was not a major accomplishment of byzantine culture:

-the reconstruction of moscow

14. which group invaded the slavic homeland beginning in the ninth century:

-varangians

15. what did vladimir, prince of kiev, do in 988 to unify his people:       - he converted to orthodox christianity

16. what is the name of the book in which muhammad ´s words and teaching were collected:

-quran

17. what is the hajj:

-the pilgrimage to mecca that all muslims must undertake if possible

18. which accurately describes islamic belief:

-muhammad is god´s only prophet.

19. what happened to islam after the death of muhammad:

-it was practiced by only few people in small parts of the world

20. which region shows the extent of islamic territory 100 years after muhhamed´s death:

-egypt, mesopotamia, persia.(b)

21. which led to the division between sunni and shia following the death of muhammed:

-conflict over who should be the caliph

22. the muslims achieved many spectacular advances, which was not one of them:

-they created the justinian´s code.

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what started the norman conquest?

profound political, administrative, and social changes in the british isles. last line of my information: )