Study Guide
Lost Vikings, Chinese Explorers,
and Vikings In America
1. Each of these documentaries
tells a story or presents a theory.
What are the individual stories or theories?
2. What types of evidences are
presented to support each theory?
3. What is the quality or
reliability of the types of evidences used in these documentaries?
4. Are alternative theories
presented? What are they? Are they pursued sufficiently or are they
dismissed too quickly?
5. There is a distinction
between hard evidence and speculation and conjecture. What role does speculation and conjecture play in each
documentary? Are the speculations valid
or strained? Why do you think so?
6. Are experts used to present
or to bolster the various theories? Are
their credentials presented and what are they?
Are they convincing? Do any
experts appear in more than one video?
7. Do you see any problems of
logic in the presentation and formulation of the various theories?
8. Do the documentaries discuss
some of the same places and people? Do
they present it differently? How so?