The most important thing that historians do is to evaluate primary source documents to build a historical narrative. So

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The most important thing that historians do is toevaluate primary source documents to build a historicalnarrative. Sometimes this is easy, and sometimes it isnot. It may involve translating documents, such as the Codeof Hammurabi from the original stele or sometimes it means workingfrom someone else's translations.
What can we learn from Primary Source Documents? Forexample, to what degree can the Old Testament, the Epic ofGilgamesh, The Book of the Dead, or the Code of Hammurabi beconsidered a historical document? Explain.