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just a balpark estimate of how much of the worlds "history" is acurate
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just a balpark estimate of how much of the worlds "history" is acurate
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20xx-present: all or most of it (except in rare cases of deliberate manipulation in dictatorship states) thank the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster]FSM[/url] for the internets over 2 billion posible points of view on an issue (and at least 1% of those is archived somewhere)
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20xx-present: all or most of it (except in rare cases of deliberate manipulation in dictatorship states) thank the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster]FSM[/url] for the internets over 2 billion posible points of view on an issue (and at least 1% of those is archived somewhere)
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2000-~1950: major events are accurate and recorded in newspapers, higher precision information is not available other then through unreliable first hand acounts and (sealed/"lost") paper records stored by goverments and large corporations
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2000-~1950: major events are accurate and recorded in newspapers, higher precision information is not available other then through unreliable first hand acounts and (sealed/"lost") paper records stored by goverments and large corporations
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~1950-~1700 writen records can be taken as accurate only if they have been coroberated by atleast 1 other independent source from the time, large use of cencorship and obfuscation of information occured. archeological data can be taken as accurate if it has been coroberated by writen records
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~1950-~1700 writen records can be taken as accurate only if they have been coroberated by atleast 1 other independent source from the time, large use of cencorship and obfuscation of information occured. archeological data can be taken as accurate if it has been coroberated by writen records
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~1700-~500 period during wich larga amounts of information was actively destroyed and/or rewriten only major events can be taken as accurate, and even then would require coroberation by at least archeological evidence and other independent sources
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~1700-~500 period during wich larga amounts of information was actively destroyed and/or rewriten only major events can be taken as accurate, and even then would require coroberation by at least archeological evidence and other independent sources
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~500-~1000bc information is more sparse, but of marginaly higher accuracy, large segments are encoded using allegory and myth
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~500-~1000bc information is more sparse, but of marginaly higher accuracy, large segments are encoded using allegory and myth
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~1000bc-XXbc only sparse first hand written accounts, and archeological records exist
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~1000bc-XXbc only sparse first hand written accounts, and archeological records exist
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thats my general guidline
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thats my general guidline
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tl:dr
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tl:dr
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almost evrything you read in the history books is a lie
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almost evrything you read in the history books is a lie
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alot of things you read in reaserch reports are just guesses (but are usualy still MUCH beter then the actual history books)
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alot of things you read in reaserch reports are just guesses (but are usualy still MUCH beter then the actual history books)
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an example:
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an example:
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hitler was a man (true)
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hitler was a man (true)
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hitler was insane(or the like) (probably not)
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hitler was insane(or the like) (probably not)
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hitler was a charismatic leader (true)
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hitler was a charismatic leader (true)
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hitler killed 7million jews (true(ish) was probably manipulated in some way)
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hitler killed 7million jews (true(ish) was probably manipulated in some way)
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hitler was the worst war criminal of that era (false, see russia, USA)
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hitler was the worst war criminal of that era (false, see russia, USA)
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hitler
could
have
won
WW2/taken
over
the
world/europe/expanded
more
then
he
did
(
extremly
unlikley,
due
to
the
large
scale
overexpansion
mass
similtaneous
revolts
from
every
anexed
country
were
very
likely
the
instant
the
war
ended,
or
it
would
have
teken
centuries
to
achive
total
conquest)
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hitler
could
have
won
WW2/taken
over
the
world/europe/expanded
more
then
he
did
(
extremly
unlikley,
due
to
the
large
scale
overexpansion
mass
similtaneous
revolts
from
every
anexed
country
were
likely
the
instant
the
war
ended,
or
it
would
have
teken
centuries
to
achive
total
conquest)
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