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Of course the state of the historical record plays an important role in that, but still...

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[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 month ago

That's because I guess most historians would describe that period as pre history :p

Secondary source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory

Primary source was a taskmaster UK episode which I can't find at an instance and is the main reason I'm writing this smartass comment :p

[–] iii@mander.xyz 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I bet there were super fun wars in the stone age, too!

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Grug say stick better. Thog say rock better. Zug make rock go on end of stick. Zug new chief now.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's a shame they weren't documented better

[–] iii@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Too bad gopro didn't exist yet

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I think they didn't even have polaroid yet

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I'd love to see old-timey street view

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

It's their own damn fault for not filming it, or at least writing it down!

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

Also known as

"The time we know Jack shit about"

Vs.

"The time we know so intimately we can reconstruct troop movements"

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

Recency bias! Also back then a lot of stuff happened at a time. But then only one stiff happed for a bit. That's special.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

TBF if we manage to successfully teach the lesson on the right it might eventually stop happening.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You think it's a lack of information that causes war?

[–] XM34@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

No, but a lack of education, knowledge and also empathy. It's one of the great Achievements, but also tragedies of the 21st century that we're slowly starting to realize that information, education and knowledge are not the same.