Sprint 1.2: Substantiate And Corroborate

A historian studying the Mughal era finds independent merchant diaries that align perfectly with official court tax records. The historian uses these diaries to the court records. This is the correct term because she relies on an source to confirm existing evidence, much like a second witness agreeing with the first. In contrast, a biology researcher writes a thesis on plant genetics and presents her newly conducted lab results to prove her hypothesis. The researcher presents this data to her thesis. This is the correct choice because she is providing the foundational to give actual substance to her own original claim, rather than just finding a secondary witness.

The newly discovered seals from the Harappan site were rigorously tested using carbon dating before the Archaeological Survey of India them as genuine artifacts. To validate the controversial historical claim regarding the decline of the Indus Valley Civilization, the historian needed to find additional primary sources that would her radical theory. In the realm of modern governance, when inter-state water disputes arise in India, the Supreme Court is often called upon to the complex legal and constitutional issues. On a global scale, after years of intense negotiations, the international climate treaty was finally by the member nations, making its emission reduction targets legally binding. Meanwhile, a researcher who faced severe criticism for his unconventional climate model felt completely when decades of subsequent satellite data proved his predictions to be entirely accurate.