For example when wars happened hundreds of years ago , how do we know certain events happened when written documents could have been destroyed or people keeping records could have been killed.
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We actually have a lot of documents from those times! Especially for things like wars, or anything that effect things on a national scale, you’re always going to have a lot of sources to confirm what happened.
What we don’t generally get are sources confirming how regular folk, especially the poorest people, lived. It’s all written from the perspective of those who had money/power/education (ie. They could read and write). Especially the further back you go, there’s so much we don’t know if it even happened or not.
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