Post #2 "I understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed through analysis of primary sources of many kinds."

A primary source a piece of evidence of hisory, that is being used to tell what happened in that time where the piece of evidence was found. When a hitorian tells or writes something about history, first he/she has to find a primary source, and then he/she has to prove that the evidence is true and autentical. There are many primary sources, primary sources can be...propagandas, biographies, artifacts, letters, diaries, official documents, pictures, etc.

Museum

Propaganda created during the New Imperialism

This artwork represents the time when the Imperialism was being in a debacle by anti-Imperialist.

The balance represents the power of the Imperialist and the Anti-imperialist, it seems that the Imperialist aare being destroyed in fire because the Anti-imperialist side is getting bigger. It also seems that the anti-imperialist are being protected by God, I think the hands represent religion.

The website that published this artwork says, "Individuals and nations have differed less about the purpose to be acomplished than about the methods to be employed. Persecutions have been carried on avowedly for the benefit of the persecued, wars been waged for the alleged improvement of those attacked, and still more frequently philantrophy has been adulterated with selfish interest.

Cartoon created on the New Imperialism

This picture is Rasputin proctecting two persons, and it seems that he is protecting them.

Rasputing was a person who was anti-imperialist, and he protected people, he also made miracles and it was hard to kill him, the day he died, he was shot 4 times and a person stab him, and people find him floating on a river, and when the doctors made an autopsy, they said that the cause of his dead was drowning.

The website where I found this picture says that, is a cartoon showing Nicholas II and his wife in Rasputin's control, they said that the artwork represents a protest agains a masacre of something betweeen 200 and 500 Serbian Workers in the gold fields of the Lena River regio

Photography of Nicholas II during the New Imperialism

This is a picture of Nicholas II, he was the last emperor of Russia.

He was one of the persons who was involved on the New Imerialism, and Rasputin was his protector. And he was an anti-imperialist.

"As the Czar he directed the construction of the Trans-Siberian railroads, made peace with France and shared entete with Great Britain. His desaustrous war with Japan, however, led to the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the creation of the Parliament.

Weapons during the New Imperialism

This is a picture of a Maxim gun, this Maxim gun was used in a war wher the US masacre 300 Sioux prisoners, this weapon was used in a war between US and India, after disarming the Indians, the US army used for small arms and four of their newest weapons, the Hotchkiss canon (picture) which fired 1.25 inch exploding shells.