How do historical experts know that what happened during certain time periods actually happened?

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How can hundreds and even thousands of years of history, which includes entire civilizations, discoveries and characters, so confidently be explained? Not all of it could have happened the way it’s being taught to modern society, right?

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Multiple sources, first hand being the best. With enough, you can even see the context of why a source was written. Julius Ceasar led an army into Gaul, defeated multiple tribes, and spent years consolidating his conquest. We know this because he wrote to Rome reporting what he did. We know he didn’t make it up, because Roman legions kept very good records, and many people on that expedition wrote about it later. We even know why he wrote the way he did (propaganda), because of of all the other people from many perspectives who wrote about it as well.

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