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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They don’t, really. Like with any other science, we make up a story that fits the evidence we find.

In an epistemological sense, we can’t *actually* know anything.

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