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2 Historians follow rules to help them analyze

primary sources. Some of the rules they use are:

• Every piece of evidence and every source must

be read or viewed skeptically and critically.

• Each piece of evidence and source must be

cross-checked and compared with related sources

and pieces of evidence.

—Library of Congress

These rules are designed to help historians

determine the

(1) reliability of document information

(2) popularity of a publication

(3) differences in belief systems

(4) laws of a civilization

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(1) reliability of document information.

The point of these rules are clearly to check if the documents line up with other evidence and are reliable. Since you are cross checking to see that the related evidence matches with the document that you are analyzing.

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