- How did the kinds of sources historians and witnesses used influence the way they narrated the events? Notice the historian's narratives focus on those things spoken by the colonial government. Witness narratives focused on the accounts of the townspeople.
- Based on the administrative structure in the colony, how did the system create misunderstandings and miscommunication?
- How did the different goals that people had, whether townspeople, colonial administrators, or the missionary, influence the decisions people made?
- Why might it be flawed to use only one perspective of records from the colonial administration, such as only the historian's record?
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