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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We dont know, we make “reasonable guesses”.
Lets say I want to know your name. I can ask you, and it is probably reasonable to assume this is your name. Now, I could be skeptical of it and ask for ID. But if I keep on being skeptical, I could think it was forged and check it is legit. But then of course, someone in the administration could have tampered with the records. And so forth, and so forth.
Much simpler to assume you told me your real name the first time, and just adjust my guess later if a proof of the contrary comes forward. Those “reasonable guesses” are the basis for interpretations and that is what historians usually argue about.
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