Information and IdeasHardFinding that would weaken a claim
Information and Ideas practice question
A historian claims that the town's Roman road was abandoned when the Romans left in the fifth century and not used again for a thousand years.
Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the historian's claim?
- A. A ninth-century charter describes the road as the boundary of an estate and names a market held beside it.Correct
- B. The road was built in the second century.
- C. The road is now under a modern bypass.
- D. Roman roads were often built on older tracks.
Answer: A. A ninth-century charter describes the road as the boundary of an estate and names a market held beside it.
In use as a landmark and a market site four centuries into the supposed gap.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The road was built in the second century.
- Doesn't bear on later use.
- C. The road is now under a modern bypass.
- Doesn't bear on the medieval period.
- D. Roman roads were often built on older tracks.
- Concerns earlier use, not later.
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