In 1957 a European silver coin dating to the eleventh century was discovered at a Native American archaeological site in the state of Maine in the United States. Many people believed the coin had been originally brought to North America by European explorers known as the Norse, who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and came into contact with Native Americans almost a thousand years ago.
However, some archaeologists believe that the coin is not a genuine piece of historical evidence but a historical fake; they think that the coin was placed at the site recently by someone who wanted to mislead the public. There are three main reasons why some archaeologists believe that the coin is not genuine historical evidence.
Great Distance from Norse Settlements
First, the Native American site in Maine where the coin was discovered is located very far from other sites documenting a Norse presence in North America. Remains of Norse settlements have been discovered in far eastern Canada. The distance between the Maine site and the Norse settlements in Canada is more than a thousand kilometers, suggesting the coin has no real connection with the settlements.
No Other Coins Found
A second problem is that no other coins have been found at the Canadian sites that were inhabited by the Norse. This suggests that the Norse did not bring any silver coins with them to their North American settlements.
No Use for European Coins
Third, the Norse who traveled to North America would have understood that silver coins would most likely be useless to them. Silver coins may have been in wide use in Europe at the time, but the Norse, as experienced explorers, would have known that native North Americans did not recognize silver coins as money
The reading passage accused that the european silver coin found in Maine is historical fake with several reasons, but the lecturer in the recording counterfacted all the points.
The first point mentioned by the passage is that the great distance between where the coin is found and where the european was presence made it impossible for the coin to travel that long, however, the lecturer suggest that the native american like to travel around and obtain different objects, making it possible for the coin to travel more than 1000 kilometers.
Secondly, the passage mentioned that there were no other silver coins being found, this is easily refuted by the lecturer that when the european went back to Europe, they pack al their valuables, including the silver coins, back to where they came from.
Lastly, the passage suggested the Norse would know that the silver coins can't work as money in America, but lecturer also acknowledge that the american would value unusual and attractive objects, they can use the silver coins as necklace or jewellery, as long as they are interested in the silver coins, they are useful.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 74, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... Norse would know that the silver coins cant work as money in America, but lecturer ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 16.0 30.3222958057 53% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 949.0 1373.03311258 69% => OK
No of words: 187.0 270.72406181 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07486631016 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.69794460899 4.04702891845 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35591693209 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 104.0 145.348785872 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.55614973262 0.540411800872 103% => OK
syllable_count: 288.9 419.366225166 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 4.0 13.0662251656 31% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 46.0 21.2450331126 217% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 70.6841566407 49.2860985944 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 237.25 110.228320801 215% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 46.75 21.698381199 215% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 16.25 7.06452816374 230% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 4.45695364238 22% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.204073573429 0.272083759551 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126990408418 0.0996497079465 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0205942613151 0.0662205650399 31% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126990408418 0.162205337803 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0205942613151 0.0443174109184 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 25.8 13.3589403974 193% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.25 53.8541721854 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 20.1 11.0289183223 182% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.01 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 34.0 63.6247240618 53% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 10.7273730684 172% => OK
gunning_fog: 20.4 10.498013245 194% => OK
text_standard: 26.0 11.2008830022 232% => The average readability is very high. Good job!
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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