When evaluating past eras, historians depend on primary documents and other resources to understand events and cultures. for instance, it would be difficult to evaluate why people once thought earth was at the center of the solar system unless you analyzed documents from the time in which the idea was relevant.

salmon were fished in puget sound.

in which two ways were the northeast woodland indians and the southeast indians similar? both collaborated to form the iroquois confederacy. both cultivated the crops of corn, beans, and squash. both lived in rich environments of swamps and rivers. both lived in tree-bark dwellings called wigwams. both expected men to hunt, while women farmed.