Can Someone Help Me Please :/ Historians study a large number of sources whenever they try to piece together an accurate picture of the past. They must learn to identify the most important details to help them discover what is most important in a historical narrative or story. The terms below are handy tools for studying historical documents.

Relevant: Information important to solving a problem or reaching a conclusion.

Irrelevant: Information not important to solving a problem or reaching a conclusion.

Essential: Information absolutely necessary to solving a problem or reaching a conclusion.

Incidental: Information not absolutely necessary to solving a problem or reaching a conclusion.

Verifiable: Information that can be proven by examining other sources.

Unverifiable: Information that cannot be proven by examining other sources.

Directions: Imagine you are a historian studying Ghana. You want to design a map of the city in Ghana that is as accurate as possible. What important information can be drawn from Al-Bakri’s account? For each of the six terms above, find and list examples of that term in Al-Bakri’s account. You may use the same fact or information more than once in your list