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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The amount of written sources out there is amazing. Absolutely amazing. I studied european history and spent quite some time in archives. The amount of records that exist is insane.

You just need to be able to read medieval(or other) in whatever language was prominent in that area at the time, and that is really hard. I could only barely decipher some texts in an ancient version of my language and even then the grammatical structures are completely different.

So most people never see any of the REAL real sources, of which only snippets of translation or interpretation can be find in books and artices.

But the sources are insanely massive in number, finding them is the trouble.

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