Used by historians to support a thesis; generated from artifacts, documents, eyewitness accounts, historical sites, photographs and other sources.

• A. Support
• B. Credibility
• C. Grievance
• D. Evidence

Answer: (D)

Historians rely on evidence to build and back up a thesis. This means they gather material from real-world sources—artifacts, documents, eyewitness accounts, historical sites, photographs, and other records—and analyze them to support a specific claim about the past. The term that best fits is evidence because it names the actual materials that can be examined and used to argue a point about history. It’s more precise than “support,” which describes what evidence does but not the thing itself; and it’s not about credibility or grievances, which are separate considerations. Using diverse sources as evidence helps historians create a convincing, well-supported argument about what happened and why it mattered.