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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I…don’t think I understand the question?
If you’re assuming that historians are 100% confident about everything, then you’re making an incorrect assumption. There is, in fact, quite a bit of disagreement and controversy about how to interpret *many* areas of history – just as there is in *any* scientific discipline. And (again, just like in other sciences) the historical consensus changes over time, as new evidence comes to light and new research is done.
Perhaps you’re basing your sense of history on, like, history documentaries made for general audiences (like you and I)? Because, yeah – those documentaries *do* tend to present pat, tidy explanations for things. But that’s because they aren’t *attempting* to communicate every nuance, or to cover every side of every controversy. They’re just trying to communicate the outlines to laypeople. They simplify actual historical research for mass consumption.
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