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In the field of historiography—the writing of history based on a critical examination of authentic primary information sources—one area that has recently attracted attention focuses on the responses of explorers and settlers to new landscapes in order to provide insights into the transformations the landscape itself has undergone as a result of settlement. ██ ████ ████████ ████████████████ █████████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ██ ███ ██████ ██████ ████ █████████████ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ ████ ██ ████████ ████████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ███████ ████ ██ ████████████ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ███████████ ████ ██████████ ██ ██████ ██████████ █████ ████████ ██ ████████

Traditional sources · for studying land of Pacific Coast: written records from European American explorers

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New sources needed · Traditional sources omit response of Asian settlers to the land

Asian settlers didn't leave many written records.

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Example of Chinese settlers' impact · Irrigated much of the land

This helped the area become a top producer of many specialty crops. Historiographers can't fully undersatnd this without studying Chinese settlers.

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This Purpose in Context question asks for the author’s primary purpose in discussing Chinese settlers in P3. The author discusses the role of the Chinese settlers as an example to show that examining “nontraditional” sources can be necessary to fully understand a region’s history.

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The purpose of the discussion of Chinese settlers in P3 isn’t to show that these settlers followed typical settlement patterns. Instead, this discussion serves as an example to show that examining “nontraditional” sources can be necessary to fully understand a region’s history.

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In P2, the author states that there is a scarcity of written records left by Asian settlers, but this isn’t the purpose of the discussion of Chinese settlers in P3. Instead, the discussion of Chinese settlers in P3 serves as an example to show that examining “nontraditional” sources can be necessary to fully understand a region’s history.

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This is the purpose of the discussion of Chinese settlers in P3. In this paragraph, we see the unique knowledge that the Chinese settlers had, and the unique way that they interacted with the land. This view would be largely absent from written European records, so the discussion of Chinese settlers illustrates the importance of nontraditional sources in understanding the history of a region.

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The author doesn’t claim that the history of settlement in the Pacific Coast has become a point of contention among historiographers, so this can’t be the point of the discussion in P3. Instead, the author shows that bringing in new sources may bring a more complete understanding of the history of settlement in the region

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The author doesn’t go as far as to say that traditional accounts are inconsistent with the record provided by the actions of Asian settlers. The author suggests that the traditional accounts are incomplete, but the author doesn’t say that the accounts are inconsistent with accounts of Asian settlers, so this can’t be the author’s primary purpose in the discussion in P3.

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