Why are primary sources important when studying historical events ?

Primary sources are important when studying historical events, because they generally give eye-witness accounts of what is going on, albeit with opinions. They give historians a view of what a certain group of people think, the actions they take, and how the events affect their everyday lives. Primary sources also allow others to build on top of it, and to give 'parts of the "whole"', such as the pieces of a puzzle, to giving those in the future a more narrow and personal outlook of things.

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he was sent to prison on various charges for protesting south africa's policies of apartheid

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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