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ancient history essay: how to analyse sources in a paragraph? (1 Viewer)

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If an ancient history essay went something along the lines of "Explain how ancient and modern sources help historians to reconstruct Minoan society".
Lets say you picked three aspects of the society like Minotaur myth, social organisation, political organisation to talk about with sources.
How many sources should be in each paragraph?
When analysing the source for reliability and bias, how much do we do in analysising. Because I don't want to be straying too much from the question by going into an in-depth source analysis on perspective, motive etc. for each source and waste time.
 

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I would say 2/3 sources per para. Do a one liner analysis of the source and then explain how it supports whatever aspect you are trying to prove.
 

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