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 mostly rely on what the people themselves wrote down. Their day to day lives in diaries can give us insight into how people lived, important occasions recorded on engravings and art on things like palaces can show us what might have happened and how (and then we can use things like carbon dating to know roughly when), and other engravings and art on things like temples can tell us about their beliefs.

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