You're in the process of testing the genuineness of your sources. you use external criticism to test your sources against other facts and data. what step of the historical method are you on?
a. analysis
b. synthesis
c. collection
d. interpretation

a.analysis

Explanation:

The Historical Method is a method used by historians and people that work with history to try and explain events that happened in the past with the most veracity and objectivity possible, and to do so they need to check and contrast their sources with existant records and try and see if what they´ve found is true and helpful, this part of the process is the analysis of the information.

i am almost certain that man symbolizes communism in this passage.

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