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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 1197095" data-attributes="member: 10948">As a History Major who has spent the mojority of his life studying various fields of history, I can easily agree with Reapersaurus' comment that on a whole, little is known about the world's history.  We may have a general understanding of what happened, what cultures were like, and all that, but that's a lot different from knowing what really happened.  For example, we know that in 479 B.C. at the battle of Plataea, some 100,000 greeks assembled to fight their common foe, the Persians.  yet somehow, they won.  How?  We don't know.  Perhaps the Persians became ill during their stay in burned-out Athens, and were unfit to fight.  Perhaps the Spartans inspired such bad-associty in the greeks that they shredded the Persians.  Similar situation at the battl of Marathon.  The Athenians were greatly outnumbered facing a foe whome they had virtually no tactical information on, yet somehow they were successful.And even this information is sketchy.  All we have are a few archeological digs and some 'historical documents' that are essentially recordings of oral tradition that tell what happened in the past.  and we all know how distorted stories become when passed down orally from generation to generation.Consider the HUGE gap in historical documentation that take place from the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of Medieval Europe.  What happened in those 4-500 years?  we really don't know.  It could very well be that the gauls rose to power, occupied rome, reigned for a few centuries, were sacked, slaughtered, had their libraries burnt to the ground, and they simply returned to 'France' to get started.  To say that we know what happened in the history of the world is akin to saying that we know every single thought that passed through (insert random person)'s mind simply because we read his biography.  We only get a few surface thoughts and most of the major stuff, but we KNOW that the author for got some things, intentionally left out others, and did not go into extreme detail because of faulty memory and other factors.History is like memory.  The most recent occurrances are extremely detailed and well-known, things father back are a little hazy and not as detailed, etc. etc.  A man who just married obviously has vivid memoried of his wedding day (and night <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=";)" /> ) but he can't remember everything he did that one day twenty-seven years ago when he was first learning how to walk, now can he?</blockquote>

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