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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1157366" data-attributes="member: 8447">I wish I could give you a URL, but this is based on an article I read in a Historiography class back about 1988 -- I no longer have the article in question.  I remember the article was written by a Mexican historian, that he was connected with the university in Mexico City, but beyond that I remember few specifics.  We read it as an example of "Controversies In History", less for specific content than for the notion of revisiting "closed" historical questions.Sorry I cannot be of further aid here.My major point in bringing it up is that it doesn't matter to most people whether the theory is correct or not, that they will still act in accordance with what they believe happened.  The same could be said of almost any historical period or action.Personally, I am more fascinated by what people think happened (and how long ago they think the event in question happened) than the actualities of the case.  For example, I had many students who believed that the Middle Ages continued until sometime in the late 1700s, while others believed that during the Renaissance religion immediately become a matter of personal choice and that all Europeans accepted this notion straight away, never accepting priests as authority figures again.  While I celebrate and revel in the discovery of historical "truths", I know most people don't care at all, especially if the new "truth" clashes with their own opinions.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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