I believe that the textbook, World History the Human Experience, is the most reliable. It is meant to inform, it is not biased, and it is made from many historians’ ideas and resources put together.
The newspaper article and the Confucian Essay are biased, and only tells one side of the story to make themselves look good. The Confucian essay’s title, “The Faults of Qin”, already hints that the author, Jia Yi, was against the Qin. He wrote, “Why? Because preserving power differs fundamentally from seizing power.” The newspaper article was written during the Central Revolution. It was written as an excuse to execute people. It states that, “Qin Shi Huang had one great flaw: he did not strike at the opposition hard enough, or suppress
The newspaper article and the Confucian Essay are biased, and only tells one side of the story to make themselves look good. The Confucian essay’s title, “The Faults of Qin”, already hints that the author, Jia Yi, was against the Qin. He wrote, “Why? Because preserving power differs fundamentally from seizing power.” The newspaper article was written during the Central Revolution. It was written as an excuse to execute people. It states that, “Qin Shi Huang had one great flaw: he did not strike at the opposition hard enough, or suppress