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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History is not an empirical science. What that means is that historians can’t confirm their beliefs about the past but they still do their best to argue that they represent reality gone by by citing sources. One way to think about it is that there is no historian with a knowledge of the past, only reasonable beliefs. And then they contest each other’s views all the time, searching for meaningful lessons in each other’s writings.
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