2006-10-03 11:12:32 · 5 answers · asked by shopaholic2133 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
They're own prejudices and beliefs.
2006-10-03 11:15:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One extreme is the fact that most ancient accounts of history and peoples encountered (think Josephus) were skewed in the favor of the conquerers. Historians have to compare many references to a culture and usually find the initial references to be far more positive as the croniclers were just interested in describing a cultural group. When the conqurering army comes in, generally the cultural group gets denigrated and vilified. This changed occurred between chroniclers who initially encountered the Celts and Druids and those who came later with the Roman armies.
2006-10-03 11:22:43 · answer #2 · answered by sonofstar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The winners write the history books, and it is had to reconstruct what life was really like when all the evidence was destroyed to lost because no one knew how to keep it. Look at Egypt, we know lots of things because they kept written records of things, but other places around the world very little. Except for China of course which has had a long written history.
2006-10-03 11:22:22 · answer #3 · answered by redhotboxsoxfan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
missing stolen artifacts that are needed to reconstruct important eras in history and conventional- thinking historians that refuse to accept that their views might be wrong. they cant imagine that our history could be anything but what they've believed for so long.
2006-10-03 11:17:37 · answer #4 · answered by §eeker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Limited information and philosophical orientation
2006-10-03 11:16:46 · answer #5 · answered by Einmann 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋