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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9186637" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>This is very true, particularly regarding history, where you're relying on historical accounts (often written decades or centuries after the events, and centuries or millennia before now) combined with archaeological evidence, the latter of which often challenges the former's truthfulness and accuracy. There's also been a longer-term issue in history, associated very much with colonialism and imperialism, and flowing out of the renaissance, where certain kind of historical account, particularly those of Romans, were basically taken at face value for centuries, and well into the late 20th century. There are still a lot of ageing professors and intellectuals who are deeply upset that Roman authors who they were basically taught as if they were brilliant founders of the West are now being treated more like other historical sources are - with skepticism and an eye to what the goal of the writing was, resulting in a real view that a lot of surviving Roman writing was basically either propaganda or political point-scoring/posturing by elites who often didn't really know what they were talking about, and who were 100% willing to &quot;just make it up&quot;.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9186637, member: 18"] This is very true, particularly regarding history, where you're relying on historical accounts (often written decades or centuries after the events, and centuries or millennia before now) combined with archaeological evidence, the latter of which often challenges the former's truthfulness and accuracy. There's also been a longer-term issue in history, associated very much with colonialism and imperialism, and flowing out of the renaissance, where certain kind of historical account, particularly those of Romans, were basically taken at face value for centuries, and well into the late 20th century. There are still a lot of ageing professors and intellectuals who are deeply upset that Roman authors who they were basically taught as if they were brilliant founders of the West are now being treated more like other historical sources are - with skepticism and an eye to what the goal of the writing was, resulting in a real view that a lot of surviving Roman writing was basically either propaganda or political point-scoring/posturing by elites who often didn't really know what they were talking about, and who were 100% willing to "just make it up". [/QUOTE]

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