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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 2 months 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 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (2 children)

It's a shame they weren't documented better

[–] iii@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Too bad gopro didn't exist yet

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I think they didn't even have polaroid yet

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

I'd love to see old-timey street view

[–] grue@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

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

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] XM34@feddit.org 2 points 2 months 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.