Answer to Question #232918 in History for siba

Question

What difficulties do historians encounter in using Columbus’ journals and 16^th-century European engravings as sources for understanding the encounter between European explorers and indigenous peoples of the New World c. 1492 

Answer 1

The problems that historians faced are a reconstruction of the past ideas prescribed by past historians into the present understanding. the complexity of the world made it difficult for historians to thus seek to borrow past knowledge which is sophisticated to solve the present situation. Furthermore, the serious historian's faces challenges in choosing reasonable topics from Columbus journals and 16th-century European engraving sources hence intense research was needed to enable Chronicles to remove the prevailing uproars in their data